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title: How many paces to the palace, roughly? — Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the F… · tree and pragmatics
description: How many paces to the palace, roughly? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1495 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 82: a lost arrow leads Ahmed to a hidden palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 10 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…

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How many paces to the palace, roughly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1495 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 82: a lost arrow leads Ahmed to a hidden palace» 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/1495-pg503-part82/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1495-pg503-part82:t10:1
# text = How many paces to the palace, roughly?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	paces	pace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Twenty or thirty, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1495-pg503-part82:t10:o1:1
# text = Twenty or thirty, mate
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
```

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

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

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Fifty or sixty, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1495-pg503-part82:t10:o2:1
# text = Fifty or sixty, mate
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ten, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1495-pg503-part82:t10:o3:1
# text = Ten, mate
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Fifty or sixty, mate, a long walk over the sand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1495-pg503-part82:t10:o4:1
# text = Fifty or sixty, mate, a long walk over the sand
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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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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