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title: Wait, how many embassies turned up at the court? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, how many embassies turned up at the court? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 775 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest prince is cheated, then wins his bride» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest princ…

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Wait, how many embassies turned up at the court?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, many embassies · **What happens:** wait, turn up · **To what, where:** court

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 775 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest prince is cheated, then wins his bride» 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/775-pg2591-part51/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:775-pg2591-part51:t9:1
# text = Wait, how many embassies turned up at the court?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	embassies	embassy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn up** | past | many embassies |  |  | the court |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Three embassies, all with gifts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:775-pg2591-part51:t9:o1:1
# text = Three embassies, all with gifts
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	embassies	embassy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	conj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:775-pg2591-part51:t9:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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Three grand embassies from the three kings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:775-pg2591-part51:t9:o3:1
# text = Three grand embassies from the three kings
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	embassies	embassy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Twelve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:775-pg2591-part51:t9:o4:1
# 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.

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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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