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title: honestly, how did the miser pay up? — Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse,… · tree and pragmatics
description: honestly, how did the miser pay up? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1186 «Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays debts, rises at court, and is sent to find the princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays d…

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honestly, how did the miser pay up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** miser · **What happens:** pay up

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1186 «Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays debts, rises at court, and is sent to find the princess» 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/1186-pg3027-part52/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t3:1
# text = honestly, how did the miser pay up?
1	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
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	miser	miser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay up** | past · do-support | the miser |  |  |  |  | honestly *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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gave up his land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t3:o1:1
# text = gave up his land
1	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	iobj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | past |  |  | his land |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Source |

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

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counted the coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t3:o2:1
# text = counted the coins
1	counted	count	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | past |  | the coins |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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paid cash

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t3:o3:1
# text = paid cash
1	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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paid in silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1186-pg3027-part52:t3:o4:1
# text = paid in silver
1	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | participle |  |  |  | silver |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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