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title: Puzzle: how many of these are verbs? "jump, happy, think, quickly, is" — Grammar puzzles, part one · tree and pragmatics
description: Puzzle: how many of these are verbs? "jump, happy, think, quickly, is" Test 9 · ★★ of lesson 11 «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language 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 9 · ★★ · Grammar puzzles, part one

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Puzzle: how many of these are verbs? "jump, happy, think, quickly, is"

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Puzzle jump · **What happens:** be, think · **To what, where:** many verbs

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This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 11 «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language 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/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:11-grammar-puzzles-part-one:t9:1
# text = Puzzle: how many of these are verbs? "jump, happy, think, quickly, is"
1	Puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	verbs	verb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Puzzle jump *not said here* | many verbs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Puzzle jump |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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2

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:11-grammar-puzzles-part-one:t9:o1:1
# text = 2
1	2	2	NUM	LS	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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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:11-grammar-puzzles-part-one:t9:o2:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	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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5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:11-grammar-puzzles-part-one:t9:o3:1
# text = 5
1	5	5	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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3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:11-grammar-puzzles-part-one:t9:o4:1
# text = 3
1	3	3	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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**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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