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title: ★★★ How many letters in «happy» hang below the line? — Handwriting: holding the pencil and jo… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ How many letters in «happy» hang below the line? Test 11 of lesson 5 «Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 11 · Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up

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★★★ How many letters in «happy» hang below the line?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ★ · **What happens:** hang · **To what, where:** line

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This is test 11 of lesson 5 «Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up» of the English 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/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up:t11:1
# text = ★★★ How many letters in «happy» hang below the line?
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	hang	hang	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	below	below	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | infinitive | ★ ★ many letters in happy |  |  | the line |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent below line=Location |

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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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3: p, p and y

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up:t11:o1:1
# text = 3: p, p and y
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	y	y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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1: just y

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up:t11:o2:1
# text = 1: just y
1	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	y	y	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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2: p and p

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up:t11:o3:1
# text = 2: p and p
1	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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0: none do

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up:t11:o4:1
# text = 0: none do
1	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | none |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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