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title: how much did the dude pay for her, like, in real money? — Fairy Book, The Rover of the Plain, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: how much did the dude pay for her, like, in real money? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1168 «Fairy Book, The Rover of the Plain, part 34: a proud king's magic is ruined, and a bride asks for a buffalo» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Rover of the Plain, part 34: a proud king'…

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how much did the dude pay for her, like, in real money?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** dude pay · **What happens:** be

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1168 «Fairy Book, The Rover of the Plain, part 34: a proud king's magic is ruined, and a bride asks for a buffalo» 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/1168-pg3027-part34/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1168-pg3027-part34:t4:1
# text = how much did the dude pay for her, like, in real money?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the dude pay for her |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a handful of gold pieces, mad expensive

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1168-pg3027-part34:t4:o1:1
# text = a handful of gold pieces, mad expensive
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	appos	_	_
8	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a few coins, cheap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1168-pg3027-part34:t4:o2:1
# text = a few coins, cheap
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a bag of silver, pretty pricey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1168-pg3027-part34:t4:o3:1
# text = a bag of silver, pretty pricey
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	pricey	pricey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two oxen, kinda a lot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1168-pg3027-part34:t4:o4:1
# text = two oxen, kinda a lot
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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