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title: Yo, how many husbands had the princess lost, bro? — Tales of the Punjab, The Brahmani's Ad… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, how many husbands had the princess lost, bro? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1836 «Tales of the Punjab, The Brahmani's Advice, part 20: the prince buys wisdom, outwits a host, and wins a throne» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 12 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, The Brahmani's Advice, part 20: the p…

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Yo, how many husbands had the princess lost, bro?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many husbands · **What happens:** have, lose · **To what, where:** princess

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1836 «Tales of the Punjab, The Brahmani's Advice, part 20: the prince buys wisdom, outwits a host, and wins a throne» 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/1836-pg7128-part20/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1836-pg7128-part20:t12:1
# text = Yo, how many husbands had the princess lost, bro?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	husbands	husband	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	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	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | many husbands | the princess and bro |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  | the princess and bro *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 husbands

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1836-pg7128-part20:t12:o1:1
# text = Two husbands
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	husbands	husband	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Almost all the suitors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1836-pg7128-part20:t12:o2:1
# text = Almost all the suitors
1	Almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	suitors	suitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Nearly all the young men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1836-pg7128-part20:t12:o3:1
# text = Nearly all the young men
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1836-pg7128-part20:t12:o4:1
# 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.

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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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