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title: Bro, how many slippers did the shoemakers knock out? — Lang Fairy Book, Rosette, part 21: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, how many slippers did the shoemakers knock out? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1524 «Lang Fairy Book, Rosette, part 21: the fairies foretell danger for Rosette» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wro
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# Test 12 · ★ · Lang Fairy Book, Rosette, part 21: the fairies foretell da…

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Bro, how many slippers did the shoemakers knock out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** knock out

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1524 «Lang Fairy Book, Rosette, part 21: the fairies foretell danger for Rosette» 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/1524-pg540-part21/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1524-pg540-part21:t12:1
# text = Bro, how many slippers did the shoemakers knock out?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	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	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shoemakers	shoemaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock out** | past · do-support | Bro and many slippers |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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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Like ten hundred, mad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1524-pg540-part21:t12:o1:1
# text = Like ten hundred, mad
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like ten, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1524-pg540-part21:t12:o2:1
# text = Like ten, mate
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like twelve thousand, mad amount

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1524-pg540-part21:t12:o3:1
# text = Like twelve thousand, mad amount
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like ten thousand, mad amount

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1524-pg540-part21:t12:o4:1
# text = Like ten thousand, mad amount
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	_
3	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
```

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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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