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title: How many of them ended up chasing Dullhead? — Household Tales, Dullhead: the golden… · tree and pragmatics
description: How many of them ended up chasing Dullhead? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1580 «Household Tales, Dullhead: the golden goose, the sticky sisters and the wedding» 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 wrong.
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# Test 5 · ★ · Household Tales, Dullhead: the golden goose, the sticky si…

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How many of them ended up chasing Dullhead?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many · **What happens:** end up, chase · **To what, where:** Dullhead

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1580 «Household Tales, Dullhead: the golden goose, the sticky sisters and the wedding» 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/1580-pg540-part77/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1580-pg540-part77:t5:1
# text = How many of them ended up chasing Dullhead?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	chasing	chase	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
8	Dullhead	Dullhead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end up** | past | many of them |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chase** | gerund | many of them *not said here* | Dullhead |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dullhead=Theme |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Seven of them, all of them in one big long line behind him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1580-pg540-part77:t5:o1:1
# text = Seven of them, all of them in one big long line behind him
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
13	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Seven, all of them in a long line

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1580-pg540-part77:t5:o2:1
# text = Seven, all of them in a long line
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
All seven of them, every single one, in a messy long line across the field

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1580-pg540-part77:t5:o3:1
# text = All seven of them, every single one, in a messy long line across the field
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	messy	messy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
15	across	across	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Seven of them, running in a row

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1580-pg540-part77:t5:o4:1
# text = Seven of them, running in a row
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | gerund |  |  |  | a row |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in row=Trajectory |

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