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title: how many sheep was the dragon nicking milk from every night? — Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: how many sheep was the dragon nicking milk from every night? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1769 «Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants children, gets a hundred, and meets a dragon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants c…

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how many sheep was the dragon nicking milk from every night?

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

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1769 «Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants children, gets a hundred, and meets a dragon» 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/1769-pg641-part20/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1769-pg641-part20:t7:1
# text = how many sheep was the dragon nicking milk from every night?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	nicking	nick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | many sheep | the dragon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **nick** | gerund | the dragon *not said here* | milk |  |  | night |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |

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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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seven hundred and seventy-seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1769-pg641-part20:t7:o1:1
# text = seven hundred and seventy-seven
1	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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sixty-six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1769-pg641-part20:t7:o2:1
# text = sixty-six
1	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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twenty-two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1769-pg641-part20:t7:o3:1
# text = twenty-two
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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seventy-seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1769-pg641-part20:t7:o4:1
# text = seventy-seven
1	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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