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title: State the number of companions accompanying the Tsar upon his final… — Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the number of companions accompanying the Tsar upon his final return home. Exam question 3 of lesson 1104 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: the Tsar milks three wild mothers and gains new companions while the serpent's plan fails» of the books course of Mova's primary s
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# Exam question 3 · Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: t…

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State the number of companions accompanying the Tsar upon his final return home.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, companions, his · **What happens:** state, accompany, return · **To what, where:** number, Tsar, final return

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1104 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Little Tsar Novishny, part 10: the Tsar milks three wild mothers and gains new companions while the serpent's plan fails» 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/1104-pg29672-part10/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:e3:1
# text = State the number of companions accompanying the Tsar upon his final return home.
1	State	state	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	accompanying	accompany	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Tsar	Tsar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of companions |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **accompany** | gerund | companions *not said here* | the Tsar |  | his final return |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tsar=Theme upon return=Destination |
| 3 | **return** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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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0

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:e3:o1:1
# text = 0
1	0	0	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:e3:o2:1
# text = Six
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|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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1

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:e3:o3:1
# text = 1
1	1	1	NUM	LS	NumForm=Digit|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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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1104-pg29672-part10:e3:o4:1
# text = Four
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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