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title: how many loaves did they chuck in the pit with the husband? — Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: how many loaves did they chuck in the pit with the husband? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 186 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becomes rich on a strange island, then is buried alive with his dead wife and survives by killing newcomers.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becom…

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how many loaves did they chuck in the pit with the husband?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many loaves, loaves · **What happens:** do, chuck · **To what, where:** pit

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 186 «Arabian Nights, Sindbad the Sailor, part 26: Sindbad becomes rich on a strange island, then is buried alive with his dead wife and survives by killing newcomers.» 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/186-pg128-part26/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:186-pg128-part26:t6:1
# text = how many loaves did they chuck in the pit with the husband?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	chuck	chuck	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | many loaves |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chuck** | present | loaves *= loaf* |  |  | the pit with the husband |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in pit=Destination |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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seven little loaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:186-pg128-part26:t6:o1:1
# text = seven little loaves
1	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a few fresh cakes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:186-pg128-part26:t6:o2:1
# text = a few fresh cakes
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
seven small loaves, a big jug of water and some dates

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:186-pg128-part26:t6:o3:1
# text = seven small loaves, a big jug of water and some dates
1	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	jug	jug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	dates	date	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
seven little loaves and a jug of water for the trip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:186-pg128-part26:t6:o4:1
# text = seven little loaves and a jug of water for the trip
1	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	loaves	loaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	jug	jug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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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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