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title: Bare rivets, how many did he count up to? — Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bare rivets, how many did he count up to? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 651 «Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and the Dragon, part 2: John finds a dragon in the dungeon and chains it up with his baby as a pledge» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 12 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and the Dragon, part 2: Jo…

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Bare rivets, how many did he count up to?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bare rivets · **What happens:** count up

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 651 «Book of Dragons, The Blacksmith and the Dragon, part 2: John finds a dragon in the dungeon and chains it up with his baby as a pledge» 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/651-pg23661-part19/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:651-pg23661-part19:t12:1
# text = Bare rivets, how many did he count up to?
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	rivets	rivet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count up** | past · do-support | Bare rivets |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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thirty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:651-pg23661-part19:t12:o1:1
# text = thirty
1	thirty	thirty	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 {#o2}

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two hundred and forty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:651-pg23661-part19:t12:o2:1
# text = two hundred and forty
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:651-pg23661-part19:t12:o3:1
# text = four
1	four	four	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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forty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:651-pg23661-part19:t12:o4:1
# text = forty
1	forty	forty	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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