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title: Which quantity of cows was observed upon the lawn of Leinster? — Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which quantity of cows was observed upon the lawn of Leinster? Exam question 3 of lesson 1070 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38: Mongan is raised, avenges his father, and sees the white cows» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Exam question 3 · Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38:…

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Which quantity of cows was observed upon the lawn of Leinster?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** observe · **To what, where:** quantity

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1070 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Adventures of Mongan, part 38: Mongan is raised, avenges his father, and sees the white cows» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1070-pg2892-part38/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1070-pg2892-part38:e3:1
# text = Which quantity of cows was observed upon the lawn of Leinster?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | past · passive |  | which quantity of cows |  |  |  | upon the lawn of Leinster | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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fifty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1070-pg2892-part38:e3:o1:1
# text = fifty
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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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fifty cows upon the lawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1070-pg2892-part38:e3:o2:1
# text = fifty cows upon the lawn
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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sixty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1070-pg2892-part38:e3:o3:1
# text = sixty
1	sixty	sixty	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}

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one hundred and fifty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1070-pg2892-part38:e3:o4:1
# text = one hundred and fifty
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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