--- title: Amira's grandpa, his son Dad, and Dad's son Omar go fishing. How man… — Trick questions that catch quick think… · tree and pragmatics description: Amira's grandpa, his son Dad, and Dad's son Omar go fishing. How many fathers are in the boat? 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How many fathers are in the boat? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** grandpa, many fathers · **What happens:** go, be · **To what, where:** fishing, boat This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 181 «Trick questions that catch quick thinkers» of the world 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/world/181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Amira's grandpa, his son Dad, and Dad's son Omar go fishing. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers:t9:1 # text = Amira's grandpa, his son Dad, and Dad's son Omar go fishing. 1 Amira Amira PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 grandpa grandpa NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 13 Omar Omar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 14 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 fishing fishing NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | Amira's grandpa and Amira's son Dad | fishing | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fishing=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* How many fathers are in the boat? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers:t9:2 # text = How many fathers are in the boat? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | many fathers | | | the boat | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Two ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers:t9:o1:1 # text = Two 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Three ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers:t9:o2:1 # text = Three 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Four ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers:t9:o3:1 # text = Four 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} One ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:181-trick-questions-that-catch-quick-thinkers:t9:o4:1 # text = One 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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