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title: Which object did the neighbour receive from the king in return for h… — Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object did the neighbour receive from the king in return for her service? Exam question 3 of lesson 1285 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is carried off by fairies and rescued by her husband» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Exam question 3 · Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is c…

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Which object did the neighbour receive from the king in return for her service?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** object, neighbour · **What happens:** receive, service · **To what, where:** return

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1285 «Irish Fairy Tales, The Fairy Nurse: the farmer's wife is carried off by fairies and rescued by her husband» 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/1285-pg3454-part10/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:e3:1
# text = Which object did the neighbour receive from the king in return for her service?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past · do-support | which object |  |  | return for neighbour's service |  | from the king | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from king=Source |
| 2 | **service** |  | neighbour |  |  |  |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Five guineas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:e3:o1:1
# text = Five guineas
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	guineas	guinea	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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Ten shillings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:e3:o2:1
# text = Ten shillings
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	shillings	shilling	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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Two sovereigns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:e3:o3:1
# text = Two sovereigns
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sovereigns	sovereign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Five guineas and a silver cup

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1285-pg3454-part10:e3:o4:1
# text = Five guineas and a silver cup
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	guineas	guinea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	cup	cup	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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