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title: yo, how many sisters did Ivan have, like, total? — Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Death… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo, how many sisters did Ivan have, like, total? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 428 «Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 20: Ivan's sisters wed three birds, then he frees Koshchei and searches for his wife» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 20: Ivan'…

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yo, how many sisters did Ivan have, like, total?

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

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 428 «Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 20: Ivan's sisters wed three birds, then he frees Koshchei and searches for his wife» 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/428-pg22373-part20/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:428-pg22373-part20:t1:1
# text = yo, how many sisters did Ivan have, like, total?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · do-support | many sisters |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Four, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:428-pg22373-part20:t1:o1:1
# text = Four, bruv
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:428-pg22373-part20:t1:o2:1
# text = three, bruv
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Two, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:428-pg22373-part20:t1:o3:1
# text = Two, bruv
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Three sisters, no cap, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:428-pg22373-part20:t1:o4:1
# text = Three sisters, no cap, bruv
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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