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title: How many countries did Peter traverse in his flight before reaching… — Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut… · tree and pragmatics
description: How many countries did Peter traverse in his flight before reaching the third old woman? Exam question 4 of lesson 705 «Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wedding, and his flight from Eisenkopf» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Exam question 4 · Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wed…

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How many countries did Peter traverse in his flight before reaching the third old woman?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many countries · **What happens:** traverse, reach · **To what, where:** flight, third old woman

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 705 «Grimm, Eisenkopf, part 45: Peter's nut-born herds, his wedding, and his flight from Eisenkopf» 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/705-pg2435-part45/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:e4:1
# text = How many countries did Peter traverse in his flight before reaching the third old woman?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	traverse	traverse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **traverse** | past · do-support | many countries |  |  | Peter's flight |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | gerund | many countries *not said here* | the third old woman |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent woman=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Seven times seven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:e4:o1:1
# text = Seven times seven
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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More than a hundred countries across the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:e4:o2:1
# text = More than a hundred countries across the sea
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	4	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Twenty-one kingdoms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:e4:o3:1
# text = Twenty-one kingdoms
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Seven countries and seven seas beyond

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:705-pg2435-part45:e4:o4:1
# text = Seven countries and seven seas beyond
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	beyond	beyond	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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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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