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title: How many murderers rocked up at the inn? — Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a fa… · tree and pragmatics
description: How many murderers rocked up at the inn? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1928 «Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a faithful servant saves his master, then a witch's poison kills a horse, a raven and twelve robbers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a faithful servant saves…

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How many murderers rocked up at the inn?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many murderers · **What happens:** rock up · **To what, where:** inn

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1928 «Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a faithful servant saves his master, then a witch's poison kills a horse, a raven and twelve robbers» 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/1928-pg7277-part65/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1928-pg7277-part65:t11:1
# text = How many murderers rocked up at the inn?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	murderers	murderer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rocked	rock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
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	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rock up** | past | many murderers |  |  | the inn |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at inn=Location |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Seven of them, bare lads

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1928-pg7277-part65:t11:o1:1
# text = Seven of them, bare lads
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lads	lad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fifteen of them, proper mad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1928-pg7277-part65:t11:o2:1
# text = Fifteen of them, proper mad
1	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Ten of them, dead sketchy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1928-pg7277-part65:t11:o3:1
# text = Ten of them, dead sketchy
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sketchy	sketchy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Twelve of them, all in

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1928-pg7277-part65:t11:o4:1
# text = Twelve of them, all in
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	appos	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
```

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

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