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title: Mate, how many blokes were sat round that table? — Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, how many blokes were sat round that table? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1873 «Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story, the magic word, and the Caliph's new life» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story,…

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Mate, how many blokes were sat round that table?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** sit · **To what, where:** Mate

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1873 «Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story, the magic word, and the Caliph's new life» 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/1873-pg7277-part10/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1873-pg7277-part10:t9:1
# text = Mate, how many blokes were sat round that table?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	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	blokes	bloke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	sat	sit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	round	round	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · passive |  | Mate and many blokes |  |  |  | round that table | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Eight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1873-pg7277-part10:t9:o1:1
# text = Eight
1	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1873-pg7277-part10:t9:o2:1
# text = Two
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Twelve blokes, all in silk robes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1873-pg7277-part10:t9:o3:1
# text = Twelve blokes, all in silk robes
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	blokes	bloke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1873-pg7277-part10:t9:o4:1
# text = Nine
1	Nine	nine	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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