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description: Which sum did the parson surrender to Ivan in exchange for his departure? Exam question 4 of lesson 1126 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, part 32: Ivan's fiddle makes the parson dance; the lark and mouse go to war; an eagle repays an archer» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the
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# Exam question 4 · Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, part 32: Ivan's fiddle…

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Which sum did the parson surrender to Ivan in exchange for his departure?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sum · **What happens:** do, depart · **To what, where:** parson surrender, Ivan, exchange

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1126 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, part 32: Ivan's fiddle makes the parson dance; the lark and mouse go to war; an eagle repays an archer» 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/1126-pg29672-part32/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1126-pg29672-part32:e4:1
# text = Which sum did the parson surrender to Ivan in exchange for his departure?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	parson	parson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	surrender	surrender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which sum | the parson surrender | Ivan | exchange for sum's departure |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surrender=Eventuality |
| 2 | **depart** |  | sum |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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}

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Thirty karbovantsya gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1126-pg29672-part32:e4:o1:1
# text = Thirty karbovantsya gold
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	karbovantsya	karbovantsya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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One hundred karbovantsya

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1126-pg29672-part32:e4:o2:1
# text = One hundred karbovantsya
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	list	_	_
3	karbovantsya	karbovantsya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A coin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1126-pg29672-part32:e4:o3:1
# text = A coin
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Ten roubles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1126-pg29672-part32:e4:o4:1
# text = Ten roubles
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	roubles	rouble	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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