--- title: How many doves were up for sale, like three? — Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the… · tree and pragmatics description: How many doves were up for sale, like three? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1813 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince escapes his father's trap, forgets his bride, and wins her back» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1813-pg641-part64/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1813-pg641-part64/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince es… How many doves were up for sale, like three? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many doves · **What happens:** be This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1813 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince escapes his father's trap, forgets his bride, and wins her back» 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/1813-pg641-part64/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1813-pg641-part64:t9:1 # text = How many doves were up for sale, like three? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 doves dove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 sale sale NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | many doves | | | | | for sale | tree rules | 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} Four ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1813-pg641-part64:t9:o1:1 # text = Four 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Three ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1813-pg641-part64:t9:o2:1 # text = Three 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Three, not more, said the sisters ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1813-pg641-part64:t9:o3:1 # text = Three, not more, said the sisters 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Three | the sisters | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sister=Topic | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Three doves, sold cheap at the inn ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1813-pg641-part64:t9:o4:1 # text = Three doves, sold cheap at the inn 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 doves dove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 sold sell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 5 cheap cheap ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 inn inn NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sell** | participle | | Three doves *not said here* | | the inn | | cheap *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at inn=Asset | **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. 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