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title: Enumerate the number of seas which intervene between the prince and… — Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 5:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Enumerate the number of seas which intervene between the prince and his objective, according to Lady Jamila. Exam question 4 of lesson 1204 «Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 5: the deer-prince is caught by Jamila, who breaks the spell and sends him off to find the Simurgh» of the books course of M
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# Exam question 4 · Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 5: the deer-prince is c…

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Enumerate the number of seas which intervene between the prince and his objective, according to Lady Jamila.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, seas · **What happens:** enumerate, intervene, accord · **To what, where:** number

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1204 «Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 5: the deer-prince is caught by Jamila, who breaks the spell and sends him off to find the Simurgh» 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/1204-pg3282-part5/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1204-pg3282-part5:e4:1
# text = Enumerate the number of seas which intervene between the prince and his objective, according to Lady Jamila.
1	Enumerate	enumerate	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	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	intervene	intervene	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	objective	objective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	case	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
18	Jamila	Jamila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enumerate** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of seas |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **intervene** | present | seas |  |  |  |  | between the prince and his objective | tree rules |
| 3 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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Seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1204-pg3282-part5:e4:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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Thirteen seas beyond the wall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1204-pg3282-part5:e4:o2:1
# text = Thirteen seas beyond the wall
1	Thirteen	thirteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wall	wall	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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Seven seas, and then a river

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1204-pg3282-part5:e4:o3:1
# text = Seven seas, and then a river
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Eight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1204-pg3282-part5:e4:o4:1
# text = Eight
1	Eight	eight	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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