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title: mate how many sons did Florentine and the girl have, like seven or n… — English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: mate how many sons did Florentine and the girl have, like seven or nine? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1966 «English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is eaten, and the dove flies to the queen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is e…

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mate how many sons did Florentine and the girl have, like seven or nine?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate many sons, Florentine · **What happens:** do, have · **To what, where:** seven

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1966 «English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is eaten, and the dove flies to the queen» 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/1966-pg7439-part25/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t8:1
# text = mate how many sons did Florentine and the girl have, like seven or nine?
1	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Florentine	Florentine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | mate many sons |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | Florentine and the girl | seven |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seven=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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nine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t8:o1:1
# 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.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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about seven or eight of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t8:o2:1
# text = about seven or eight of them
1	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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seven sons and three daughters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t8:o3:1
# text = seven sons and three daughters
1	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t8: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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