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title: Mate, how many flies did Johnny dae in one whack? — Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, how many flies did Johnny dae in one whack? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 246 «Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor kills giants, wins a princess and becomes king» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 1 · ★ · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor…

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Mate, how many flies did Johnny dae in one whack?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Johnny, one whack

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 246 «Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, Johnny Gloke: a lazy tailor kills giants, wins a princess and becomes king» 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/246-pg14241-part13/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:246-pg14241-part13:t1:1
# text = Mate, how many flies did Johnny dae in one whack?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	dae	dae	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	whack	whack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate and many flies | Johnny |  | one whack |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent johnny=Eventuality |

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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 {#o1}

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Ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:246-pg14241-part13:t1:o1:1
# 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 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Fifty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:246-pg14241-part13:t1:o2:1
# text = Fifty
1	Fifty	fifty	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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Fifty-three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:246-pg14241-part13:t1:o3:1
# text = Fifty-three
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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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:246-pg14241-part13:t1: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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