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title: How many gold eggs did the hen drop when he kept saying Lay, like? — Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Be… · tree and pragmatics
description: How many gold eggs did the hen drop when he kept saying Lay, like? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1536 «Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Jack is hidden in the Giant's wardrobe and steals the golden-egg hen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Test 7 · ★ · Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Ja…

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How many gold eggs did the hen drop when he kept saying Lay, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many gold eggs, hen, he · **What happens:** do, drop, keep, say · **To what, where:** Lay · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1536 «Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Jack is hidden in the Giant's wardrobe and steals the golden-egg hen» 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/1536-pg540-part33/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t7:1
# text = How many gold eggs did the hen drop when he kept saying Lay, like?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	Lay	Lay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | many gold eggs |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drop** | present | the hen |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | he *not said here* | Lay |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lay=Topic |

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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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four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t7:o1:1
# text = four
1	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a whole dozen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t7:o2:1
# text = a whole dozen
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dozen	dozen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t7:o3:1
# text = three
1	three	three	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 {#o4}

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two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1536-pg540-part33:t7:o4:1
# text = two
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	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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