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title: How many marriages are recorded as having been celebrated following… — Russian Folk-Tales, Norka: the brother… · tree and pragmatics
description: How many marriages are recorded as having been celebrated following these events? Exam question 4 of lesson 427 «Russian Folk-Tales, Norka: the brothers are punished and three weddings are held» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, Norka: the brothers are punished and t…

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How many marriages are recorded as having been celebrated following these events?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** record, celebrate, follow · **To what, where:** many marriages, events

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 427 «Russian Folk-Tales, Norka: the brothers are punished and three weddings are held» 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/427-pg22373-part19/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:427-pg22373-part19:e4:1
# text = How many marriages are recorded as having been celebrated following these events?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	marriages	marriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
10	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **record** | present · passive |  | many marriages |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **celebrate** | gerund · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  | this events |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent event=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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Four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:427-pg22373-part19:e4: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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Five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:427-pg22373-part19:e4:o2:1
# text = Five
1	Five	five	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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Two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:427-pg22373-part19:e4:o3:1
# 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 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:427-pg22373-part19:e4: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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