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title: Wait, how many murderers ate the raven? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, how many murderers ate the raven? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1929 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince outwits the Princess, and a hedgehog-boy rides a cock to the forest» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince…

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Wait, how many murderers ate the raven?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, many murderers · **What happens:** wait, eat · **To what, where:** raven

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1929 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince outwits the Princess, and a hedgehog-boy rides a cock to the forest» 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/1929-pg7277-part66/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:t5:1
# text = Wait, how many murderers ate the raven?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	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	murderers	murderer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | past | many murderers | the raven |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raven=Patient |

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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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:t5:o1:1
# 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 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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twelve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:t5:o2:1
# text = twelve
1	twelve	twelve	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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all twelve of the murderers together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:t5:o3:1
# text = all twelve of the murderers together
1	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	murderers	murderer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:t5:o4:1
# text = six
1	six	six	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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