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title: what did the students pay with? — Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Ma… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the students pay with? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1313 «Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king for a cow and they break Sunday rest» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was righ
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# Test 8 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king…

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what did the students pay with?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, pay · **To what, where:** students

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1313 «Finnish Tales, Ahti's Cow, part 38: Maie begs the sea king for a cow and they break Sunday rest» 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/1313-pg3454-part38/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t8:1
# text = what did the students pay with?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	pay	pay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	appos	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the students |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent student=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pay** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Silver coin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t8:o1:1
# text = Silver coin
1	Silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
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 2 {#o2}

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A shiny silver coin from the purse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t8:o2:1
# text = A shiny silver coin from the purse
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	coin	coin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Two silver coins and a copper button

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t8:o3:1
# text = Two silver coins and a copper button
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	button	button	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Silver ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1313-pg3454-part38:t8:o4:1
# text = Silver ring
1	Silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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