--- title: Be real, how many candles were by the coffin? — Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, p… · tree and pragmatics description: Be real, how many candles were by the coffin? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1927 «Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, part 64: a tailor frees his bride's castle, then a young king is trapped in a royal vault» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1927-pg7277-part64/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1927-pg7277-part64/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, part 64: a tailor fre… Be real, how many candles were by the coffin? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many candles · **What happens:** be This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1927 «Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, part 64: a tailor frees his bride's castle, then a young king is trapped in a royal vault» 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/1927-pg7277-part64/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1927-pg7277-part64:t12:1 # text = Be real, how many candles were by the coffin? 1 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 2 cop _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 csubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 candles candle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 coffin coffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | infinitive | | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | many candles | | | | | by the coffin | tree rules | 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} four, no cap ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1927-pg7277-part64:t12:o1:1 # text = four, no cap 1 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} five, no cap ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1927-pg7277-part64:t12:o2:1 # text = five, no cap 1 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} twelve candles, lowkey, all in a row ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1927-pg7277-part64:t12:o3:1 # text = twelve candles, lowkey, all in a row 1 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 candles candle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 lowkey lowkey NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 conj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 row row NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} eight of them, all lit, no cap, bro ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1927-pg7277-part64:t12:o4:1 # text = eight of them, all lit, no cap, bro 1 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 lit lit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 9 det _ _ 9 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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