--- title: How many Bens did the raven drag him over on day one? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the… · tree and pragmatics description: How many Bens did the raven drag him over on day one? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 2017 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the king's son and the magic bundle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2017-pg7885-part36/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2017-pg7885-part36/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the… How many Bens did the raven drag him over on day one? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many Bens · **What happens:** drag over · **To what, where:** raven This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2017 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the king's son and the magic bundle» 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/2017-pg7885-part36/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:t6:1 # text = How many Bens did the raven drag him over on day one? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Bens Ben PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 raven raven NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 drag drag VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 over over ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drag over** | past · do-support | many Bens | raven | | | | on day one | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | 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} nine, ridiculous ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:t6:o1:1 # text = nine, ridiculous 1 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ridiculous ridiculous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} nine Bens, which is ridiculous, honestly ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:t6:o2:1 # text = nine Bens, which is ridiculous, honestly 1 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 Bens ben NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 ridiculous ridiculous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 honestly honestly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | nine Bens | | | | | honestly, ridiculous *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 {#o3} seven, ridiculous ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:t6:o3:1 # text = seven, ridiculous 1 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ridiculous ridiculous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} nine, absolutely ridiculous, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2017-pg7885-part36:t6:o4:1 # text = nine, absolutely ridiculous, mate 1 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 absolutely absolutely ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 ridiculous ridiculous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 vocative _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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