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title: Hang on, how many cows had to give milk each day? — English Fairy Tales, The Lambton Worm,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hang on, how many cows had to give milk each day? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 264 «English Fairy Tales, The Lambton Worm, part 1: the Childe fights the Worm at the Rock» 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 w
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# Test 5 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Lambton Worm, part 1: the Childe…

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Hang on, how many cows had to give milk each day?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, many cows · **What happens:** hang on, have, give · **To what, where:** milk

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 264 «English Fairy Tales, The Lambton Worm, part 1: the Childe fights the Worm at the Rock» 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/264-pg14241-part31/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:264-pg14241-part31:t5:1
# text = Hang on, how many cows had to give milk each day?
1	Hang	hang	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang on** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | many cows |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | many cows *not said here* | milk |  |  | day |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nine kye, like proper nine, marra

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:264-pg14241-part31:t5:o1:1
# text = Nine kye, like proper nine, marra
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kye	kye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	marra	marra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Seven kye, like proper seven, marra

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:264-pg14241-part31:t5:o2:1
# text = Seven kye, like proper seven, marra
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kye	kye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	marra	marra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nine kye, like proper nine, marra, from the byre and the field both

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:264-pg14241-part31:t5:o3:1
# text = Nine kye, like proper nine, marra, from the byre and the field both
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kye	kye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	marra	marra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	byre	byre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	both	both	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nine cows, mate, proper nine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:264-pg14241-part31:t5:o4:1
# text = Nine cows, mate, proper nine
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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