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title: How many birds were there in that tree, mate? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Dragon's Gran… · tree and pragmatics
description: How many birds were there in that tree, mate? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1687 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Dragon's Grandmother: the soldiers trick the Dragon with the answer to his riddle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Dragon's Grandmother: the soldier…

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How many birds were there in that tree, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many birds · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** tree

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1687 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Dragon's Grandmother: the soldiers trick the Dragon with the answer to his riddle» 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/1687-pg640-part11/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1687-pg640-part11:t12:1
# text = How many birds were there in that tree, mate?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | many birds |  |  | that tree and mate |  | 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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One

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1687-pg640-part11:t12:o1:1
# text = One
1	One	one	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 {#o2}

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Nine birds, all black

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1687-pg640-part11:t12:o2:1
# text = Nine birds, all black
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1687-pg640-part11:t12:o3:1
# text = Seven
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Nine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1687-pg640-part11:t12: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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