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title: Did the coachman make her swear once or twelve times? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the coachman make her swear once or twelve times? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1123 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon, the Prince slays it but the coachman steals the glory» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon,…

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Did the coachman make her swear once or twelve times?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** coachman, her · **What happens:** make, swear · **To what, where:** her

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1123 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon, the Prince slays it but the coachman steals the glory» of the books 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/books/1123-pg29672-part29/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t6:1
# text = Did the coachman make her swear once or twelve times?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	coachman	coachman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	swear	swear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · do-support | the coachman | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swear** | infinitive | her *= she* *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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twelve times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t6:o1:1
# text = twelve times
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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six times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t6:o2:1
# text = six times
1	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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twelve times, I reckon, maybe more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t6:o3:1
# text = twelve times, I reckon, maybe more
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | I |  |  |  | time |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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ten times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t6:o4:1
# text = ten times
1	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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