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title: Lol, how many golden balls did the Sultan hand out? — Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, how many golden balls did the Sultan hand out? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 231 «Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 71: the brothers are freed and meet the Sultan» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 3 · ★ · Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 71: the brother…

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Lol, how many golden balls did the Sultan hand out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many golden balls, Sultan · **What happens:** do, hand out

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 231 «Persian Tales, The Princess Parizade, part 71: the brothers are freed and meet the Sultan» 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/231-pg128-part71/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:231-pg128-part71:t3:1
# text = Lol, how many golden balls did the Sultan hand out?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | many golden balls |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hand out** | infinitive | the Sultan |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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 {#o1}

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four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:231-pg128-part71:t3:o1:1
# text = four
1	four	four	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 {#o2}

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two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:231-pg128-part71:t3:o2:1
# 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.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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nine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:231-pg128-part71:t3:o3:1
# 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 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:231-pg128-part71:t3:o4:1
# text = three
1	three	three	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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**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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