--- title: Ascertain the number of Djinns summoned by Suleiman-bin-Daoud for th… — Just So Stories, The Butterfly that St… · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the number of Djinns summoned by Suleiman-bin-Daoud for the Butterfly's sake. Exam question 2 of lesson 97 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/e2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Just So Stories, The Butterfly that St…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the B… Ascertain the number of Djinns summoned by Suleiman-bin-Daoud for the Butterfly's sake. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, summon · **To what, where:** number, Djinns This is exam question 2 of lesson 97 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 2: the Butterfly stamps, Balkis is wise, and the book ends» 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/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends:e2:1 # text = Ascertain the number of Djinns summoned by Suleiman-bin-Daoud for the Butterfly's sake. 1 Ascertain ascertain 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 _ 5 case _ _ 5 Djinns djinn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 summoned summon VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 Suleiman Suleiman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 bin bin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Daoud Daoud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 13 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Butterfly Butterfly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the number of Djinns | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | | 2 | **summon** | participle | | Djinns *not said here* | | | | by Suleiman Daoud; for the Butterfly's sake | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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} Seventeen thousand ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends:e2:o1:1 # text = Seventeen thousand 1 Seventeen seventeen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 list _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Four ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends:e2:o2:1 # text = Four 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Two ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends:e2:o3:1 # text = Two 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} One ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends:e2:o4:1 # text = One 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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