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description: ★★★ Kacper puts his 2 brothers to bed 5 nights a week, and reads each of them one story a night. Mum does Saturdays and Sundays. How many stories does Kacper read in 2 weeks? Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 502 «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, wit
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»

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★★★ Kacper puts his 2 brothers to bed 5 nights a week, and reads each of them one story a night. Mum does Saturdays and Sundays. How many stories does Kacper read in 2 weeks?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, Mum, many stories · **What happens:** put, read, do · **To what, where:** 2 brothers, one story

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 502 «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» of the everyday 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/everyday/502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* ★★★ Kacper puts his 2 brothers to bed 5 nights a week, and reads each of them one story a night.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest:t9:1
# text = ★★★ Kacper puts his 2 brothers to bed 5 nights a week, and reads each of them one story a night.
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Kacper	Kacper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | present | ★ ★ Kacper |  | ★'s 2 brothers |  | night | to bed | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent brother=Goal |
| 2 | **read** | present | ★ ★ Kacper *not said here* | each one story |  |  | night |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Mum does Saturdays and Sundays.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest:t9:2
# text = Mum does Saturdays and Sundays.
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Saturdays	Saturday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Mum |  |  |  | saturday |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* How many stories does Kacper read in 2 weeks?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest:t9:3
# text = How many stories does Kacper read in 2 weeks?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Kacper	Kacper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present · do-support | many stories |  |  |  | week |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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14

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest:t9:o1:1
# text = 14
1	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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10

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest:t9:o2:1
# text = 10
1	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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28

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest:t9:o3:1
# text = 28
1	28	28	NUM	CD	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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20

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:502-minding-the-little-ones-youre-the-oldest:t9:o4:1
# text = 20
1	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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