--- title: how many tallow drops got on that shirt? — Popular Tales from the Norse, East of… · tree and pragmatics description: how many tallow drops got on that shirt? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1420 «Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 7: the North Wind carries her to the castle, and the shirt goes wrong» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1420-pg503-part7/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Popular Tales from the Norse, East of…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1420-pg503-part7/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of… how many tallow drops got on that shirt? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many, drops · **What happens:** tallow, get · **To what, where:** shirt This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1420 «Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 7: the North Wind carries her to the castle, and the shirt goes wrong» 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/1420-pg503-part7/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:t8:1 # text = how many tallow drops got on that shirt? 1 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tallow tallow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 shirt shirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tallow** | present | many | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | past | drops | | | that shirt | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on shirt=Source | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Three, like exactly three ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:t8:o1:1 # text = Three, like exactly three 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Like five, I think they said ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:t8:o2:1 # text = Like five, I think they said 1 Like like ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I | | | | | like five | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | they | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Three, like exactly three, right on the front of the shirt ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:t8:o3:1 # text = Three, like exactly three, right on the front of the shirt 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 right right ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 acl:relcl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 shirt shirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Two or three, roughly speaking ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1420-pg503-part7:t8:o4:1 # text = Two or three, roughly speaking 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 or or CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 roughly roughly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 speaking speak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | roughly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | **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. 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