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title: Dude, how many sepoys came along for the ride? — Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and Kat… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dude, how many sepoys came along for the ride? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1847 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and Katar, part 31: the prince proves he is the husband, then reveals he is the King's son» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 6 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and Katar, part 31: the pri…

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Dude, how many sepoys came along for the ride?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Dude · **What happens:** come along

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1847 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Prince and Katar, part 31: the prince proves he is the husband, then reveals he is the King's son» 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/1847-pg7128-part31/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1847-pg7128-part31:t6:1
# text = Dude, how many sepoys came along for the ride?
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sepoys	sepoy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	along	along	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come along** | past | Dude and many sepoys |  |  |  |  | for the ride; along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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Few

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1847-pg7128-part31:t6:o1:1
# text = Few
1	Few	few	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Some soldiers for the trip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1847-pg7128-part31:t6:o2:1
# text = Some soldiers for the trip
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ten men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1847-pg7128-part31:t6:o3:1
# text = Ten men
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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A great many, to guard them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1847-pg7128-part31:t6:o4:1
# text = A great many, to guard them
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	guard	guard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | to-infinitive |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |

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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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