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title: What number of pumpkins did the sister report remaining when the sla… — Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed… · tree and pragmatics
description: What number of pumpkins did the sister report remaining when the slave arrived? Exam question 4 of lesson 1308 «Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after the parents die, a sister's pot and pumpkins bring her luck until her envious brother steals the pot» of the books course of Mova'
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# Exam question 4 · Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after…

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What number of pumpkins did the sister report remaining when the slave arrived?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** number, sister report, slave · **What happens:** do, remain, arrive · **To what, where:** sister report

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1308 «Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after the parents die, a sister's pot and pumpkins bring her luck until her envious brother steals the pot» 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/1308-pg3454-part33/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:e4:1
# text = What number of pumpkins did the sister report remaining when the slave arrived?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	pumpkins	pumpkin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | number of pumpkins | the sister report |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remain** | gerund | the sister report *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **arrive** | participle | the slave |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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}

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Five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:e4:o1:1
# text = Five
1	Five	five	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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Four pumpkins, as the sister had counted them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:e4:o2:1
# text = Four pumpkins, as the sister had counted them
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pumpkins	pumpkin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | past · perfect · passive |  | Four pumpkins |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Four pumpkins remained, after the slave had taken some

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:e4:o3:1
# text = Four pumpkins remained, after the slave had taken some
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pumpkins	pumpkin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | Four pumpkins |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past · perfect · passive |  | the slave |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme some=Destination |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1308-pg3454-part33:e4: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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**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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