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title: Bet, how old were the princes after three days? — Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bet, how old were the princes after three days? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1802 «Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks become golden fishes, and the fishes become princes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 10 · ★ · Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks…

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Bet, how old were the princes after three days?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bet · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** princes

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1802 «Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks become golden fishes, and the fishes become princes» 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/1802-pg641-part53/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1802-pg641-part53:t10:1
# text = Bet, how old were the princes after three days?
1	Bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bet | the princes |  |  | day |  | tree rules |

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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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Twelve years old, twenty-four strong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1802-pg641-part53:t10:o1:1
# text = Twelve years old, twenty-four strong
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
8	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Twelve years old, thirty strong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1802-pg641-part53:t10:o2:1
# text = Twelve years old, thirty strong
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Twelve years old, very strong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1802-pg641-part53:t10:o3:1
# text = Twelve years old, very strong
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Twenty-four strong

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1802-pg641-part53:t10:o4:1
# text = Twenty-four strong
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
```

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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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