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title: ok but why were there so many herring? — Jurgen's Book, Jurgen, part 178: Jurge… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok but why were there so many herring? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 967 «Jurgen's Book, Jurgen, part 178: Jurgen is freed and travels to Skjagen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 11 · ★ · Jurgen's Book, Jurgen, part 178: Jurgen is freed and trave…

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ok but why were there so many herring?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 967 «Jurgen's Book, Jurgen, part 178: Jurgen is freed and travels to Skjagen» 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/967-pg27200-part178/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:967-pg27200-part178:t11:1
# text = ok but why were there so many herring?
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	herring	herring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | many herring *obl:unmarked*; there *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 {#o1}

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Nets just kept on filling, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:967-pg27200-part178:t11:o1:1
# text = Nets just kept on filling, innit
1	Nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	filling	filling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past · passive |  | Nets |  | filling and innit |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme on filling=Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The sea was rammed with them, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:967-pg27200-part178:t11:o2:1
# text = The sea was rammed with them, mate
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	rammed	ram	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ram** | past · passive |  | the sea |  |  |  | with them *= they*; mate *vocative* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They came in from the north, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:967-pg27200-part178:t11:o3:1
# text = They came in from the north, mate
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | past | They |  |  | the north and mate |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from north=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The sea was so full of them that the boats couldn't even move through the water, bruv

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:967-pg27200-part178:t11:o4:1
# text = The sea was so full of them that the boats couldn't even move through the water, bruv
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the sea |  |  |  |  | of them *= they*; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **move** | could | the boats |  |  | the water and bruv |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through water=Trajectory |

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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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