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title: How many feathers did she grab from him? — More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brow… · tree and pragmatics
description: How many feathers did she grab from him? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 240 «More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp out and is cursed» 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 was right.
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# Test 12 · ★ · More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp…

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How many feathers did she grab from him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many feathers · **What happens:** grab

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 240 «More English Fairy Tales, Yallery Brown: Tom lets the imp out and is cursed» 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/240-pg14241-part7/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:t12:1
# text = How many feathers did she grab from him?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	feathers	feather	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	grab	grab	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | past · do-support | many feathers |  |  |  |  | from him *= he* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from he=Source |

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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 {#o1}

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three golden feathers from his wing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:t12:o1:1
# text = three golden feathers from his wing
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:t12:o2:1
# text = three
1	three	three	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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seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:t12:o3:1
# text = seven
1	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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three white feathers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:240-pg14241-part7:t12:o4:1
# text = three white feathers
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	feathers	feather	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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