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title: What was the number of damsels observed by Kynon at the window of th… — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fo… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the number of damsels observed by Kynon at the window of the castle? Exam question 2 of lesson 1324 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kynon meets the black giant and the fountain storm» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kyn…

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What was the number of damsels observed by Kynon at the window of the castle?

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

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1324 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kynon meets the black giant and the fountain storm» 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/1324-pg3454-part49/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:e2:1
# text = What was the number of damsels observed by Kynon at the window of the castle?
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	damsels	damsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Kynon	Kynon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	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 damsels |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **observe** | participle |  | damsels *not said here* |  | the window of the castle |  | by Kynon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 {#o1}

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Seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:e2: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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Twelve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:e2:o2:1
# text = Twelve
1	Twelve	twelve	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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Thirty and four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:e2:o3:1
# text = Thirty and four
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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Four and twenty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1324-pg3454-part49:e2:o4:1
# text = Four and twenty
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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