---
title: So the soldier got four bob for fetching his tinder-box? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the soldier got four bob for fetching his tinder-box? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1003 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, the three dogs and the soldier's escape» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/t5/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/) / t5

# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, t…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So the soldier got four bob for fetching his tinder-box?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** soldier · **What happens:** get, fetch · **To what, where:** four bob, tinder box

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1003 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, the three dogs and the soldier's escape» 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/1003-pg27200-part214/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1003-pg27200-part214:t5:1
# text = So the soldier got four bob for fetching his tinder-box?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	bob	bob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	fetching	fetch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	tinder	tinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the soldier | four bob |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bob=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fetch** | gerund | the soldier *not said here* | soldier's tinder box |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, three shillings, a fair price for that

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1003-pg27200-part214:t5:o1:1
# text = Yeah, three shillings, a fair price for that
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	shillings	shilling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, four shillings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1003-pg27200-part214:t5:o2:1
# text = Yeah, four shillings
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	shillings	shilling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, four shillings, a lot of money then

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1003-pg27200-part214:t5:o3:1
# text = Yeah, four shillings, a lot of money then
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	shillings	shilling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, four shillings, that's proper cash back then

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1003-pg27200-part214:t5:o4:1
# text = Yeah, four shillings, that's proper cash back then
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	shillings	shilling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that | proper cash |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box…, test 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/t4/)
- next →: [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box…, test 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/t6/)
- ↑ back to [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, the three dogs and the soldier's escape](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1003-pg27200-part214/)