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title: Dead simple, how many brothers were there? — Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead simple, how many brothers were there? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1658 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47: Esben steals the witch's lamp and is sent for a coverlet» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 8 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47…

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Dead simple, how many brothers were there?

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

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1658 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47: Esben steals the witch's lamp and is sent for a coverlet» 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/1658-pg5615-part47/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1658-pg5615-part47:t8:1
# text = Dead simple, how many brothers were there?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | simple many brothers |  |  |  |  | there *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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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twelve brothers and eleven sisters in all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1658-pg5615-part47:t8:o1:1
# text = twelve brothers and eleven sisters in all
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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eleven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1658-pg5615-part47:t8:o2:1
# text = eleven
1	eleven	eleven	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 -->
eleven brothers, all older than Esben

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1658-pg5615-part47:t8:o3:1
# text = eleven brothers, all older than Esben
1	eleven	eleven	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	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Esben	Esben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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nine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1658-pg5615-part47:t8:o4:1
# text = nine
1	nine	nine	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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