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title: fam, how many chickens did she actually scoff? — Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: fam, how many chickens did she actually scoff? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 750 «Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learns the dwarf's name, and Gretel eats the fowls» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learn…

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fam, how many chickens did she actually scoff?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** fam, she · **What happens:** do, scoff

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 750 «Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learns the dwarf's name, and Gretel eats the fowls» 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/750-pg2591-part26/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:750-pg2591-part26:t6:1
# text = fam, how many chickens did she actually scoff?
1	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	scoff	scoff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | fam and many chickens |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **scoff** |  | she |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | 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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Both of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:750-pg2591-part26:t6:o1:1
# text = Both of them
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Three of them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:750-pg2591-part26:t6:o2:1
# text = Three of them
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Neither

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:750-pg2591-part26:t6:o3:1
# text = Neither
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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One

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:750-pg2591-part26:t6:o4:1
# text = One
1	One	one	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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