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title: Specify the number of days remaining in the Prince's term of service… — Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and the W… · tree and pragmatics
description: Specify the number of days remaining in the Prince's term of service at the time the horses first escaped. Exam question 4 of lesson 1716 «Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and the Witch's Horses, part 40: the fish, the eagle and the fox help Iwanich get the horses back» of the books course of Mova's pri
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# Exam question 4 · Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and the Witch's Horses, part…

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Specify the number of days remaining in the Prince's term of service at the time the horses first escaped.

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, days, horses, Prince · **What happens:** specify, remain, escape, term · **To what, where:** number, term, time, service

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1716 «Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and the Witch's Horses, part 40: the fish, the eagle and the fox help Iwanich get the horses back» 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/1716-pg640-part40/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1716-pg640-part40:e4:1
# text = Specify the number of days remaining in the Prince's term of service at the time the horses first escaped.
1	Specify	specify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	advmod	_	_
20	escaped	escape	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **specify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of days |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
| 2 | **remain** | gerund | days *not said here* |  |  | the Prince's term of service | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in term=Location |
| 3 | **escape** | past | the horses | the time *not said here* |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **term** |  | the Prince | service |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Three days.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1716-pg640-part40:e4:o1:1
# text = Three days.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Five days.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1716-pg640-part40:e4:o2:1
# text = Five days.
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Six days.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1716-pg640-part40:e4:o3:1
# text = Six days.
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Three days remained until the year ended.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1716-pg640-part40:e4:o4:1
# text = Three days remained until the year ended.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | Three days |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **end** | past | the year |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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