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title: How many whistles did she give, grand so? — Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucu… · tree and pragmatics
description: How many whistles did she give, grand so? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 2010 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucullin, part 29: Oonagh tricks the giant with iron cakes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice w
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# Test 4 · ★ · Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucullin, part 29: Oonag…

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How many whistles did she give, grand so?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many whistles · **What happens:** give, grand

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 2010 «Irish Fairy Tales, Fin M'Coul and Cucullin, part 29: Oonagh tricks the giant with iron cakes» 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/2010-pg7885-part29/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:t4:1
# text = How many whistles did she give, grand so?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	whistles	whistle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	grand	grand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · do-support | many whistles |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **grand** | infinitive | many whistles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Four whistles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:t4:o1:1
# text = Four whistles
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	whistles	whistle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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Three whistles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:t4:o2:1
# text = Three whistles
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	whistles	whistle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Three loud whistles and a high smoke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:t4:o3:1
# text = Three loud whistles and a high smoke
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	whistles	whistle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Three cheers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2010-pg7885-part29:t4:o4:1
# text = Three cheers
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	cheers	cheer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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