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title: Yo, how many times did that canary mess with the cook? — Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three b… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, how many times did that canary mess with the cook? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1565 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pin pulled from a bird» 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 wa
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# Test 4 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pi…

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Yo, how many times did that canary mess with the cook?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many times · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** canary mess

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1565 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pin pulled from a bird» 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/1565-pg540-part62/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:t4:1
# text = Yo, how many times did that canary mess with the cook?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	canary	canary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mess	mess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | many times | that canary mess |  |  |  | with the cook | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mess=Eventuality |

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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:1565-pg540-part62:t4: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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:t4:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:t4:o3:1
# 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.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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more times than anybody could count

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1565-pg540-part62:t4:o4:1
# text = more times than anybody could count
1	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nmod	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | could | more times than anybody |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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