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title: Hoo many cattle's stabled in the byre, dae ye ken? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the Kin… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hoo many cattle's stabled in the byre, dae ye ken? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 2018 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, part 37: the giant sets the prince three hard tasks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, par…

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Hoo many cattle's stabled in the byre, dae ye ken?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** stable · **To what, where:** Hoo many cattle, byre

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 2018 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, part 37: the giant sets the prince three hard tasks» 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/2018-pg7885-part37/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t8:1
# text = Hoo many cattle's stabled in the byre, dae ye ken?
1	Hoo	hoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	stabled	stable	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	byre	byre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	dae	dae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	compound	_	_
11	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	compound	_	_
12	ken	ken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stable** | participle |  | Hoo many cattle and dae ye ken *not said here* |  | the byre |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in byre=Destination |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a hundred

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t8:o1:1
# text = a hundred
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t8:o2:1
# text = ten
1	ten	ten	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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twa hunner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t8:o3:1
# text = twa hunner
1	twa	twa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	hunner	hunner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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twelve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2018-pg7885-part37:t8:o4:1
# 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.

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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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