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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John…

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With reference to the narrative, state the sum which John offered in exchange for the decent burial of the deceased.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, John · **What happens:** state, offer, decease · **To what, where:** sum, exchange, decent burial

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1007 «Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John pays for a dead man's rest, then the salve mends a broken doll» 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/1007-pg27200-part218/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:e1:1
# text = With reference to the narrative, state the sum which John offered in exchange for the decent burial of the deceased.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	state	state	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
11	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	decent	decent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	deceased	decease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **state** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the sum |  |  |  | with reference to the narrative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sum=Topic |
| 2 | **offer** | past | John | the sum |  | exchange |  | for the decent burial *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent which=Theme for burial=Goal |
| 3 | **decease** | participle |  | the decent burial *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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fifty dollars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:e1:o1:1
# text = fifty dollars
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	dollars	dollar	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 dollars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:e1:o2:1
# text = ten dollars
1	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	dollars	dollar	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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fifty dollars in gold coin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:e1:o3:1
# text = fifty dollars in gold coin
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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five dollars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1007-pg27200-part218:e1:o4:1
# text = five dollars
1	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	dollars	dollar	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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