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title: How many black dogs were the brothers, like actually? — Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the G… · tree and pragmatics
description: How many black dogs were the brothers, like actually? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 164 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three old men tell their wonderful tales, and the fisherman casts his net» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three…

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How many black dogs were the brothers, like actually?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many black dogs · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** brothers

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 164 «Arabian Nights, The Merchant and the Genie, part 4: three old men tell their wonderful tales, and the fisherman casts his net» 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/164-pg128-part4/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:t4:1
# text = How many black dogs were the brothers, like actually?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	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 a** | past | many black dogs | the brothers |  |  |  | actually *property* | 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 {#o1}

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One, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:t4:o1:1
# text = One, mate
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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Two, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:t4:o2:1
# text = Two, mate
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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None, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:t4:o3:1
# text = None, mate
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Four, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:164-pg128-part4:t4:o4:1
# text = Four, mate
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
```

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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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