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title: the funeral had how many speeches, tell me — Andersen, Something, part 199: the cri… · tree and pragmatics
description: the funeral had how many speeches, tell me Test 10 · ★ of lesson 988 «Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's gate, and old Margaret's burning bed saves the skaters» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's…

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the funeral had how many speeches, tell me

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** funeral · **What happens:** have, tell · **To what, where:** many speeches, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 988 «Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's gate, and old Margaret's burning bed saves the skaters» 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/988-pg27200-part199/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:988-pg27200-part199:t10:1
# text = the funeral had how many speeches, tell me
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	speeches	speech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the funeral | many speeches |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the funeral *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |

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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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seven speeches, all of them praising him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:988-pg27200-part199:t10:o1:1
# text = seven speeches, all of them praising him
1	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	speeches	speech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	praising	praise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** | gerund | seven speeches | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:988-pg27200-part199:t10:o2:1
# 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.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:988-pg27200-part199:t10:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:988-pg27200-part199:t10:o4:1
# 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.

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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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