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title: Dude, how many times did the hawk mess up the king's drink? — Historical Tales, The King and His Haw… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, how many times did the hawk mess up the king's drink? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 354 «Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirsty king is kept from drinking by his pet hawk» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 8 · ★ · Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirst…

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Dude, how many times did the hawk mess up the king's drink?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Dude, hawk · **What happens:** do, mess up · **To what, where:** drink

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 354 «Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirsty king is kept from drinking by his pet hawk» 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/354-pg18442-part14/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:t8:1
# text = Dude, how many times did the hawk mess up the king's drink?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	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	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	mess	mess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Dude |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mess up** | present | the hawk | the king's drink |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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}

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three times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:t8:o1:1
# text = three times
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:t8:o2:1
# text = once
1	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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twice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:t8:o3:1
# text = twice
1	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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four times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:354-pg18442-part14:t8:o4:1
# text = four times
1	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	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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