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title: fr, what did the parson pay Ivan with? — Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, what did the parson pay Ivan with? Test 9 · ★ 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 dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Test 9 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Magic Egg, part 32: Ivan's fiddle…

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fr, what did the parson pay Ivan with?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** parson · **What happens:** pay · **To what, where:** fr, Ivan

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This is test 9 · ★ 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. 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1126-pg29672-part32:t9:1
# text = fr, what did the parson pay Ivan with?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	parson	parson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
8	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	iobj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past · do-support | the parson | fr | Ivan |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent ivan=Recipient what=Asset |

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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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some coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1126-pg29672-part32:t9:o1:1
# text = some coins
1	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a hundred karbovantsya

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1126-pg29672-part32:t9:o2:1
# text = a hundred karbovantsya
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	karbovantsya	karbovantsya	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two hundred karbovantsya

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1126-pg29672-part32:t9:o3:1
# text = two hundred karbovantsya
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	karbovantsya	karbovantsya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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fifty silver karbovantsya

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1126-pg29672-part32:t9:o4:1
# text = fifty silver karbovantsya
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	karbovantsya	karbovantsya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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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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