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title: What is the approximate number of herring prepared for the students'… — Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: What is the approximate number of herring prepared for the students' meal? Exam question 3 of lesson 1313 «Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king for a cow and they break Sunday rest» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Exam question 3 · Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king…

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What is the approximate number of herring prepared for the students' meal?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** approximate number · **What happens:** be, prepare · **To what, where:** herring

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1313 «Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king for a cow and they break Sunday rest» 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/1313-pg3454-part38/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:e3:1
# text = What is the approximate number of herring prepared for the students' meal?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	approximate	approximate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	herring	herring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the approximate number of herring |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **prepare** | participle |  | herring *not said here* |  |  |  | for the students's meal | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for meal=Beneficiary |

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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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Around fifty herring from the barrel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:e3:o1:1
# text = Around fifty herring from the barrel
1	Around	around	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	herring	herring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:e3:o2:1
# 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 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Fifty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:e3:o3:1
# text = Fifty
1	Fifty	fifty	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 {#o4}

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Twenty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:e3:o4:1
# text = Twenty
1	Twenty	twenty	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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