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title: Did Joanna send a whole dollar for Christmas? — Andersen's Tales, The Gingerbread Cake… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Joanna send a whole dollar for Christmas? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1015 «Andersen's Tales, The Gingerbread Cakes, part 226: Knud walks to Copenhagen to visit Joanna» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Gingerbread Cakes, part 226: Knud wa…

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Did Joanna send a whole dollar for Christmas?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Joanna · **What happens:** send · **To what, where:** whole dollar

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1015 «Andersen's Tales, The Gingerbread Cakes, part 226: Knud walks to Copenhagen to visit Joanna» 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/1015-pg27200-part226/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1015-pg27200-part226:t4:1
# text = Did Joanna send a whole dollar for Christmas?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · do-support | Joanna | a whole dollar |  |  |  | for Christmas | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dollar=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yep, a whole dollar, bet, folded in the letter with a ribbon

<!-- fold The tree, 12 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1015-pg27200-part226:t4:o1:1
# text = yep, a whole dollar, bet, folded in the letter with a ribbon
1	yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	folded	fold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fold** | participle |  | a whole dollar and bet *not said here* |  | the letter with a ribbon |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yep, a whole dollar, bet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1015-pg27200-part226:t4:o2:1
# text = yep, a whole dollar, bet
1	yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, she sent a little gingerbread and some coins, no dollar at all

<!-- fold The tree, 13 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1015-pg27200-part226:t4:o3:1
# text = nah, she sent a little gingerbread and some coins, no dollar at all
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | she | a little gingerbread and some coins and no dollar |  | all |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gingerbread=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yep, half a dollar, bet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1015-pg27200-part226:t4:o4:1
# text = yep, half a dollar, bet
1	yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	5	det:predet	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dollar	dollar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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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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