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title: How many heads did the Troll inhabiting the silver wood possess? — Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: How many heads did the Troll inhabiting the silver wood possess? Exam question 2 of lesson 1548 «Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: the princess and the Bull flee, and she tears leaves in three magic woods» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Exam question 2 · Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: the princess and the…

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How many heads did the Troll inhabiting the silver wood possess?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many heads, Troll, silver wood · **What happens:** do, inhabit, possess · **To what, where:** Troll

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1548 «Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: the princess and the Bull flee, and she tears leaves in three magic woods» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1548-pg540-part45/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1548-pg540-part45:e2:1
# text = How many heads did the Troll inhabiting the silver wood possess?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	heads	head	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	6	det	_	_
6	Troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	inhabiting	inhabit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | many heads | the Troll |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent troll=Eventuality |
| 2 | **inhabit** | gerund | the Troll *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **possess** | infinitive | the silver wood |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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1

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1548-pg540-part45:e2:o1:1
# text = 1
1	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|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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2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1548-pg540-part45:e2:o2:1
# text = 2
1	2	2	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1548-pg540-part45:e2:o3:1
# 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 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1548-pg540-part45:e2:o4:1
# text = Six
1	Six	six	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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