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title: Yo, how many sailors went in the little boat? — Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badou… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, how many sailors went in the little boat? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 204 «Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the olives hide the gold and the talisman, and the prince is carried off» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 11 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the oli…

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Yo, how many sailors went in the little boat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many sailors · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** little boat

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 204 «Arabian Nights, Camaralzaman and Badoura, part 44: the olives hide the gold and the talisman, and the prince is carried off» 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/204-pg128-part44/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:204-pg128-part44:t11:1
# text = Yo, how many sailors went in the little boat?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	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	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | many sailors |  |  | the little boat |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in boat=Location |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Six sailors, all proper quick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:204-pg128-part44:t11:o1:1
# text = Six sailors, all proper quick
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
5	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Five men, all quite young

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:204-pg128-part44:t11:o2:1
# text = Five men, all quite young
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Two sailors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:204-pg128-part44:t11:o3:1
# text = Two sailors
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Four sailors, all quite strong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:204-pg128-part44:t11:o4:1
# text = Four sailors, all quite strong
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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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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