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title: Yo, how many brothers were in that ship business? — Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, how many brothers were in that ship business? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1642 «Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter, part 31: three ships, a hermit and two strange helpers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the K…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yo, how many brothers were in that ship business?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many brothers · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** ship business

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1642 «Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter, part 31: three ships, a hermit and two strange helpers» 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/1642-pg5615-part31/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:t5:1
# text = Yo, how many brothers were in that ship business?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | many brothers |  |  | that ship business |  |  | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Three brothers, all trying the same thing for the princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:t5:o1:1
# text = Three brothers, all trying the same thing for the princess
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
5	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | gerund | all | the same thing |  |  |  | for the princess | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent thing=Theme for princess=Attribute |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Three brothers, all after the same princess and her gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:t5:o2:1
# text = Three brothers, all after the same princess and her gold
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Three brothers, all trying the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:t5:o3:1
# text = Three brothers, all trying the same
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
5	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | gerund | Three brothers | the same |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Four brothers, all after the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:t5:o4:1
# text = Four brothers, all after the same
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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

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