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title: How many swans pulled the boat, mate? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie th… · tree and pragmatics
description: How many swans pulled the boat, mate? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 926 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie the Dream-God, part 137: the dream-man decorates Hjalmar's room and sails him to his nurse» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie the Dream-God, part 13…

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How many swans pulled the boat, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many swans · **What happens:** pull · **To what, where:** boat

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 926 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie the Dream-God, part 137: the dream-man decorates Hjalmar's room and sails him to his nurse» 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/926-pg27200-part137/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:926-pg27200-part137:t7:1
# text = How many swans pulled the boat, mate?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | past | many swans | the boat and mate |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |

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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}

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four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:926-pg27200-part137:t7: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 {#o2}

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no

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:926-pg27200-part137:t7:o2:1
# text = no
1	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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1

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:926-pg27200-part137:t7:o3:1
# text = 1
1	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|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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six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:926-pg27200-part137:t7:o4:1
# text = six
1	six	six	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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