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title: What number of suitors had forfeited their lives before the Prince's… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What number of suitors had forfeited their lives before the Prince's arrival? Exam question 2 of lesson 1929 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince outwits the Princess, and a hedgehog-boy rides a cock to the forest» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depende
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# Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince…

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What number of suitors had forfeited their lives before the Prince's arrival?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** forfeit, arrive · **To what, where:** number

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1929 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince outwits the Princess, and a hedgehog-boy rides a cock to the forest» 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/1929-pg7277-part66/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:e2:1
# text = What number of suitors had forfeited their lives before the Prince's arrival?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	suitors	suitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	forfeited	forfeit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forfeit** | past · perfect · passive |  | number of suitors |  |  | before the Prince's arrival |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **arrive** |  | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:e2:o1:1
# text = seven
1	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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nine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:e2:o2:1
# text = nine
1	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:e2:o3:1
# text = six
1	six	six	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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two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:e2:o4:1
# text = two
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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