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title: bruh, how many masts did the big ship have? — Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh, how many masts did the big ship have? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 877 «Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid saves the drowning prince from the storm» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid save…

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bruh, how many masts did the big ship have?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many masts, big ship · **What happens:** do, have · **To what, where:** big ship

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 877 «Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid saves the drowning prince from the storm» 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/877-pg27200-part88/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:877-pg27200-part88:t5:1
# text = bruh, how many masts did the big ship have?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	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	masts	mast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | many masts | the big ship |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | infinitive | the big ship *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:877-pg27200-part88:t5:o1:1
# 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 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:877-pg27200-part88:t5:o2:1
# text = three
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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three masts with sails

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:877-pg27200-part88:t5:o3:1
# text = three masts with sails
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	masts	mast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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three great masts and flags

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:877-pg27200-part88:t5:o4:1
# text = three great masts and flags
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	masts	mast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	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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