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title: the sisters, how many were there, like proper? — Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer W… · tree and pragmatics
description: the sisters, how many were there, like proper? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1570 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man searches for Jack, and the Eagle carries him to the farmer's house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi
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# Test 8 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man…

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the sisters, how many were there, like proper?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sisters · **What happens:** be

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1570 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man searches for Jack, and the Eagle carries him to the farmer's house» 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/1570-pg540-part67/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1570-pg540-part67:t8:1
# text = the sisters, how many were there, like proper?
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the sisters |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the sisters *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1570-pg540-part67:t8:o1:1
# 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 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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three sisters in total

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1570-pg540-part67:t8:o2:1
# text = three sisters in total
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
five sisters altogether

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1570-pg540-part67:t8:o3:1
# text = five sisters altogether
1	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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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:1570-pg540-part67:t8: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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