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title: fr, how many chains was the horse tied with? — Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Death… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, how many chains was the horse tied with? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 431 «Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 23: Ivan finds a horse, flings a rock, and reaches his mother» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 5 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 23: Ivan…

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fr, how many chains was the horse tied with?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fr · **What happens:** be, tie · **To what, where:** horse

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 431 «Russian Folk-Tales, Koshchei the Deathless, part 23: Ivan finds a horse, flings a rock, and reaches his mother» 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/431-pg22373-part23/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:431-pg22373-part23:t5:1
# text = fr, how many chains was the horse tied with?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | fr and many chains | the horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tie** | participle |  | the horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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Twelve iron chains of great weight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:431-pg22373-part23:t5:o1:1
# text = Twelve iron chains of great weight
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Twenty chains bound with silver rings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:431-pg22373-part23:t5:o2:1
# text = Twenty chains bound with silver rings
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bind** | participle |  | Twenty chains *not said here* |  |  |  | with silver rings | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with ring=Co-Patient |

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

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Twelve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:431-pg22373-part23:t5:o3:1
# text = Twelve
1	Twelve	twelve	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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Eleven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:431-pg22373-part23:t5:o4:1
# text = Eleven
1	Eleven	eleven	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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