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title: How mony questions did the Etin ask, eh, and was it mental or no'? — Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: How mony questions did the Etin ask, eh, and was it mental or no'? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1503 «Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest brother gets a magic wand, beats the Etin and frees the king's daughter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest…

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How mony questions did the Etin ask, eh, and was it mental or no'?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mony questions, ask · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** Etin ask

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1503 «Scottish Fairy Tales, The Red Etin, part 90: the youngest brother gets a magic wand, beats the Etin and frees the king's daughter» 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/1503-pg503-part90/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1503-pg503-part90:t7:1
# text = How mony questions did the Etin ask, eh, and was it mental or no'?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	mony	mony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Etin	Etin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	ask	ask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	14	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | mony questions | the Etin ask |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ask=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | ask |  |  |  |  | mental *property* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Five questions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1503-pg503-part90:t7:o1:1
# text = Five questions
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Two, pal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1503-pg503-part90:t7:o2:1
# text = Two, pal
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	pal	pal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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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 questions

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1503-pg503-part90:t7:o3:1
# text = Three questions
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Three riddles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1503-pg503-part90:t7:o4:1
# text = Three riddles
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	riddles	riddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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