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title: Yo, how many sentinels went missing in total? — Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, how many sentinels went missing in total? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1621 «Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king breaks his word, the princess dies, and the sentinels vanish one by one» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king…

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Yo, how many sentinels went missing in total?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many sentinels · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** total

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1621 «Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king breaks his word, the princess dies, and the sentinels vanish one by one» 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/1621-pg5615-part10/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1621-pg5615-part10:t7:1
# text = Yo, how many sentinels went missing in total?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sentinels	sentinel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | many sentinels |  |  | total |  | missing *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in total=Location |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Every single one, night after night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1621-pg5615-part10:t7:o1:1
# text = Every single one, night after night
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Several, most nights, some weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1621-pg5615-part10:t7:o2:1
# text = Several, most nights, some weeks
1	Several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Just one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1621-pg5615-part10:t7:o3:1
# text = Just one
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	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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Nearly all of them, over a year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1621-pg5615-part10:t7:o4:1
# text = Nearly all of them, over a year
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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