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title: What was the number of serpents seated at the prince's dinner? — Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Iv… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the number of serpents seated at the prince's dinner? Exam question 4 of lesson 1131 «Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Ivan's animal helpers win the serpent's tasks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Exam question 4 · Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Ivan's animal helpers…

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What was the number of serpents seated at the prince's dinner?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** number · **What happens:** be, seat · **To what, where:** serpents, dinner

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1131 «Russian Tales, Ivan Golik, part 37: Ivan's animal helpers win the serpent's tasks» 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/1131-pg29672-part37/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1131-pg29672-part37:e4:1
# text = What was the number of serpents seated at the prince's dinner?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the number of serpents |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seat** | participle |  | serpents *not said here* |  | the prince's dinner |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |

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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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Ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1131-pg29672-part37:e4:o1:1
# text = Ten
1	Ten	ten	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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Seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1131-pg29672-part37:e4:o2:1
# text = Seven
1	Seven	seven	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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Two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1131-pg29672-part37:e4:o3:1
# text = Two
1	Two	two	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Eleven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1131-pg29672-part37:e4:o4:1
# text = Eleven
1	Eleven	eleven	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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**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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