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title: Identify the number of mounted and foot soldiers that the King of Ar… — Crimson Fairy Book, The Seven Simeons,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the number of mounted and foot soldiers that the King of Archidej assigned to escort the Princess Helena upon her departure. Exam question 2 of lesson 668 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Seven Simeons, part 8: Simon steals the princess and sails off under the sea» of the books course of Mova's pri
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# Exam question 2 · Crimson Fairy Book, The Seven Simeons, part 8: Simon steal…

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Identify the number of mounted and foot soldiers that the King of Archidej assigned to escort the Princess Helena upon her departure.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, King, Archidej · **What happens:** identify, mount, assign, escort, depart · **To what, where:** number, Princess Helena, departure

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 668 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Seven Simeons, part 8: Simon steals the princess and sails off under the sea» 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/668-pg2435-part8/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:668-pg2435-part8:e2:1
# text = Identify the number of mounted and foot soldiers that the King of Archidej assigned to escort the Princess Helena upon her departure.
1	Identify	identify	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	_	8	case	_	_
5	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Archidej	Archidej	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	assigned	assign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	escort	escort	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Helena	Helena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of mounted foot soldiers |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
| 2 | **mount** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **assign** | past | the King of Archidej |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **escort** | to-infinitive | the King of Archidej *not said here* | the Princess Helena |  | Archidej's departure |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent helena=Theme upon departure=Destination |
| 5 | **depart** |  | Archidej |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Five hundred foot soldiers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:668-pg2435-part8:e2:o1:1
# text = Five hundred foot soldiers
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ten soldiers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:668-pg2435-part8:e2:o2:1
# text = Ten soldiers
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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One thousand mounted and foot soldiers of the realm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:668-pg2435-part8:e2:o3:1
# text = One thousand mounted and foot soldiers of the realm
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
3	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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One thousand soldiers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:668-pg2435-part8:e2:o4:1
# text = One thousand soldiers
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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