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title: State the number of days during which Prince Bahman travelled before… — Arabian Nights, Princess Parizade, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the number of days during which Prince Bahman travelled before approaching the frontiers of Persia. Exam question 2 of lesson 229 «Arabian Nights, Princess Parizade, part 69: Prince Bahman turns to black stone on the mountain» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency t
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# Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Princess Parizade, part 69: Prince Bahman…

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State the number of days during which Prince Bahman travelled before approaching the frontiers of Persia.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Prince · **What happens:** state, travel, approach · **To what, where:** number, frontiers

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 229 «Arabian Nights, Princess Parizade, part 69: Prince Bahman turns to black stone on the mountain» 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/229-pg128-part69/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:229-pg128-part69:e2:1
# text = State the number of days during which Prince Bahman travelled before approaching the frontiers of Persia.
1	State	state	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	during	during	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Bahman	Bahman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	approaching	approach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	frontiers	frontier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Persia	Persia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of days |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **travel** | past | Prince |  |  |  | during days |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **approach** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | the frontiers of Persia |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frontier=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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thirty nights

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:229-pg128-part69:e2:o1:1
# text = thirty nights
1	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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two weeks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:229-pg128-part69:e2:o2:1
# text = two weeks
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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twenty days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:229-pg128-part69:e2:o3:1
# text = twenty days
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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ten days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:229-pg128-part69:e2:o4:1
# text = ten days
1	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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