--- title: how many flowers did the big shrub have, like loads? — Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seed… · tree and pragmatics description: how many flowers did the big shrub have, like loads? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 2069 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpina pulls up a strange shrub and is carried off by Pluto» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2069-pg976-part28/t10/) [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/) / [Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seed…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2069-pg976-part28/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpi… how many flowers did the big shrub have, like loads? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many flowers, big shrub · **What happens:** do, have · **To what, where:** loads This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 2069 «Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds, part 28: Proserpina pulls up a strange shrub and is carried off by Pluto» 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/2069-pg976-part28/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t10:1 # text = how many flowers did the big shrub have, like loads? 1 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 shrub shrub NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 loads load NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | many flowers | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | the big shrub | loads | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient | 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} around ninety ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t10:o1:1 # text = around ninety 1 around around ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 ninety ninety NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} far more than a hundred blossoms on each stem ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t10:o2:1 # text = far more than a hundred blossoms on each stem 1 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ _ 2 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 5 advmod _ _ 3 than than ADP IN _ 2 fixed _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 blossoms blossom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 stem stem NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} above a hundred ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t10:o3:1 # text = above a hundred 1 above above ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} more than a thousand flowers and buds ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2069-pg976-part28:t10:o4:1 # text = more than a thousand flowers and buds 1 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 4 advmod _ _ 2 than than ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 buds bud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ ``` 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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