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title: Who paid him to carry lover news, mate? — Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who paid him to carry lover news, mate? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boot…

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Who paid him to carry lover news, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** pay, carry · **To what, where:** him, lover news

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» 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/1090-pg29021-part15/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t9:1
# text = Who paid him to carry lover news, mate?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset |
| 2 | **carry** | to-infinitive |  | lover news and mate |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Married women

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t9:o1:1
# text = Married women
1	Married	married	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	women	woman	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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Nobles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t9:o2:1
# text = Nobles
1	Nobles	noble	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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The ladies of the court

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t9:o3:1
# text = The ladies of the court
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Ladies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:t9:o4:1
# text = Ladies
1	Ladies	lady	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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