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title: Dude, how many apples did the maiden give the prince? — Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-Hens and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, how many apples did the maiden give the prince? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1759 «Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples, part 10: the prince finds a voice begging for water in the twelfth cellar» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples, part…

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Dude, how many apples did the maiden give the prince?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude, maiden · **What happens:** do, give · **To what, where:** prince

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1759 «Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples, part 10: the prince finds a voice begging for water in the twelfth cellar» 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/1759-pg641-part10/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1759-pg641-part10:t6:1
# text = Dude, how many apples did the maiden give the prince?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	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	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Dude and many apples |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | the maiden | the prince |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=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}

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Two apples

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1759-pg641-part10:t6:o1:1
# text = Two apples
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Two, one for him and one for his dad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1759-pg641-part10:t6:o2:1
# text = Two, one for him and one for his dad
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Three, one for each brother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1759-pg641-part10:t6:o3:1
# text = Three, one for each brother
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Two, one for his mother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1759-pg641-part10:t6:o4:1
# text = Two, one for his mother
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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