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title: mate how many buns did you get for a penny loaf? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling… · tree and pragmatics
description: mate how many buns did you get for a penny loaf? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1010 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magician's head, the swan, and the farewell» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magi…

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mate how many buns did you get for a penny loaf?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate many buns · **What happens:** get

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1010 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magician's head, the swan, and the farewell» 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/1010-pg27200-part221/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t5:1
# text = mate how many buns did you get for a penny loaf?
1	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	buns	bun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · do-support | mate many buns |  |  |  |  | for a penny loaf | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for loaf=Source |

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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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twelve, all with icing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t5:o1:1
# text = twelve, all with icing
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	icing	icing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t5:o2:1
# text = six
1	six	six	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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six, full of raisins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t5:o3:1
# text = six, full of raisins
1	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	raisins	raisin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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two buns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t5:o4:1
# text = two buns
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	buns	bun	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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