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description: Pursuant to the text, state the number of holes contained in each copper shoe. Exam question 2 of lesson 659 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edmund fetches the drakling and tricks it into the fire-shaft» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree a
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# Exam question 2 · The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edm…

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Pursuant to the text, state the number of holes contained in each copper shoe.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** state, contain · **To what, where:** number, text, holes, copper shoe

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 659 «The Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 27: Edmund fetches the drakling and tricks it into the fire-shaft» 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/659-pg23661-part27/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:659-pg23661-part27:e2:1
# text = Pursuant to the text, state the number of holes contained in each copper shoe.
1	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	state	state	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 holes | the text |  |  | pursuant *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Topic to text=Recipient |
| 2 | **contain** | participle |  | holes *not said here* |  | each copper shoe |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in shoe=Location |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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five

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:659-pg23661-part27:e2:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:659-pg23661-part27:e2:o2:1
# text = seven
1	seven	seven	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 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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each shoe has five holes in it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:659-pg23661-part27:e2:o3:1
# text = each shoe has five holes in it
1	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | each shoe | five holes |  | it |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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five holes on every single shoe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:659-pg23661-part27:e2:o4:1
# text = five holes on every single shoe
1	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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