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title: State the number of iron hoops that snap before the Soldier leaps on… — Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the number of iron hoops that snap before the Soldier leaps onto the horse. Exam question 2 of lesson 471 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier drives a witch's coffin and tricks her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier…

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State the number of iron hoops that snap before the Soldier leaps onto the horse.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, iron hoops, Soldier · **What happens:** state, snap, leap · **To what, where:** number

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 471 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier drives a witch's coffin and tricks her» 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/471-pg22373-part63/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:e2:1
# text = State the number of iron hoops that snap before the Soldier leaps onto the horse.
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	_	6	case	_	_
5	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hoops	hoop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	snap	snap	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	leaps	leap	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
13	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	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 iron hoops |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 2 | **snap** | present | iron hoops |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **leap** | present | the Soldier |  |  |  |  | onto the horse | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto horse=Trajectory |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:e2:o1:1
# 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.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three, but only after the horse slowed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:e2:o2:1
# text = three, but only after the horse slowed
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
8	slowed	slow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slow** | participle |  | the horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:e2:o3:1
# 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 4 {#o4}

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all three of the iron hoops

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:e2:o4:1
# text = all three of the iron hoops
1	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hoops	hoop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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