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title: lol how many negroes did the prince actually take out? — Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 9:… · tree and pragmatics
description: lol how many negroes did the prince actually take out? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1208 «Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 9: Almas follows Gul and unmasks the princess's secret» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 4 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 9: Almas follows Gul an…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
lol how many negroes did the prince actually take out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many negroes, prince · **What happens:** do, take out · **To what, where:** prince

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1208 «Arabian Nights, Prince Almas, part 9: Almas follows Gul and unmasks the princess's secret» 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/1208-pg3282-part9/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1208-pg3282-part9:t4:1
# text = lol how many negroes did the prince actually take out?
1	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	negroes	negro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | many negroes | the prince |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality |
| 2 | **take out** | infinitive | the prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: 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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
like four or five, honestly, it was a whole crew

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1208-pg3282-part9:t4:o1:1
# text = like four or five, honestly, it was a whole crew
1	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | a whole crew |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1208-pg3282-part9:t4:o2:1
# text = three
1	three	three	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1208-pg3282-part9:t4:o3:1
# text = four
1	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three of them, plus the giant at the gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1208-pg3282-part9:t4:o4:1
# text = three of them, plus the giant at the gate
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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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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