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title: Real talk, how many fit birds were in the window? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Real talk, how many fit birds were in the window? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1324 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kynon meets the black giant and the fountain storm» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 10 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kyn…

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Real talk, how many fit birds were in the window?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many fit birds · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** window

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1324 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kynon meets the black giant and the fountain storm» 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/1324-pg3454-part49/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:t10:1
# text = Real talk, how many fit birds were in the window?
1	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | many fit birds |  |  | the window |  |  | tree rules |

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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 and twenty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:t10:o1:1
# text = Three and twenty
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Four and twenty fit birds in silk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:t10:o2:1
# text = Four and twenty fit birds in silk
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	fit	fit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fit** | present | Four | birds |  | silk |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bird=Theme in silk=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Twelve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:t10:o3:1
# text = Twelve
1	Twelve	twelve	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Four and twenty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:t10:o4:1
# text = Four and twenty
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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