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title: Fr fr, how many loaves did Barbaik wish to see on the shelf? — Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the br… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fr fr, how many loaves did Barbaik wish to see on the shelf? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1336 «Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the work and Barbaik agrees to marry Jegu» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 5 · ★ · Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the w…

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Fr fr, how many loaves did Barbaik wish to see on the shelf?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many loaves · **What happens:** wish, see · **To what, where:** Fr fr, shelf

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1336 «Breton Tales, Barbaik, part 61: the brownie does all the work and Barbaik agrees to marry Jegu» 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/1336-pg3454-part61/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t5:1
# text = Fr fr, how many loaves did Barbaik wish to see on the shelf?
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past · do-support | many loaves | Fr fr *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | many loaves *not said here* |  |  | the shelf |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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twelve loaves on the shelf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t5:o1:1
# text = twelve loaves on the shelf
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
six pies on the table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t5:o2:1
# text = six pies on the table
1	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pies	pie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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six loaves of bread on the high wooden shelf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t5:o3:1
# text = six loaves of bread on the high wooden shelf
1	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
six loaves on the shelf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1336-pg3454-part61:t5:o4:1
# text = six loaves on the shelf
1	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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