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title: Dude, how many wolves reckons Walter he can take on alone? — Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, how many wolves reckons Walter he can take on alone? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1287 «Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Walter sets off alone into the wood with his toys» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 6 · ★ · Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Wa…

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Dude, how many wolves reckons Walter he can take on alone?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude, Walter · **What happens:** reckon, take on · **To what, where:** Walter

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1287 «Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Walter sets off alone into the wood with his toys» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1287-pg3454-part12/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t6:1
# text = Dude, how many wolves reckons Walter he can take on alone?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	reckons	reckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | Dude and many wolves | Walter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take on** | can | Walter |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Three full-grown wolves at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t6:o1:1
# text = Three full-grown wolves at once
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
2	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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As many as three or four wolves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t6:o2:1
# text = As many as three or four wolves
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
7	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t6:o3:1
# text = Three
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1287-pg3454-part12:t6:o4:1
# text = Four
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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