--- title: How many persons were seated at supper when the youth first entered… — German Popular Stories, The Cottager A… · tree and pragmatics description: How many persons were seated at supper when the youth first entered the hut? Exam question 4 of lesson 689 «German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1: a miser's son obeys a strange dream and buys a cat» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/689-pg2435-part29/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [German Popular Stories, The Cottager A…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/689-pg2435-part29/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1:… How many persons were seated at supper when the youth first entered the hut? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** youth · **What happens:** seat, enter · **To what, where:** many persons, supper, hut This is exam question 4 of lesson 689 «German Popular Stories, The Cottager And His Cat, part 1: a miser's son obeys a strange dream and buys a cat» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/689-pg2435-part29/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:689-pg2435-part29:e4:1 # text = How many persons were seated at supper when the youth first entered the hut? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 persons person NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 seated seat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 advmod _ _ 12 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seat** | past · passive | | many persons | | supper | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | | 2 | **enter** | past | the youth | the hut | | | | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Destination | 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} eight people in all, counting the children ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:689-pg2435-part29:e4:o1:1 # text = eight people in all, counting the children 1 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 counting count VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | gerund | eight people in all *not said here* | the children | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} two ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:689-pg2435-part29:e4:o2:1 # text = two 1 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} five ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:689-pg2435-part29:e4:o3:1 # text = five 1 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} seven ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:689-pg2435-part29:e4:o4:1 # text = seven 1 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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