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title: What quantity of gold did the Prince request from the creature of th… — Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What quantity of gold did the Prince request from the creature of the rock as his recompense? Exam question 3 of lesson 1443 «Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches the taxes and tricks the giant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Exam question 3 · Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches…

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What quantity of gold did the Prince request from the creature of the rock as his recompense?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** quantity · **What happens:** do, recompense · **To what, where:** Prince request, creature

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1443 «Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches the taxes and tricks the giant» 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/1443-pg503-part30/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:e3:1
# text = What quantity of gold did the Prince request from the creature of the rock as his recompense?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	recompense	recompense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | what quantity of gold | the Prince request |  | the creature of the rock |  | as quantity's recompense | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality |
| 2 | **recompense** |  | quantity |  |  |  |  |  | nom recompense «possession 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 {#o1}

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as much gold as the horses could pull

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:e3:o1:1
# text = as much gold as the horses could pull
1	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | could | the horses | much gold *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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all the silver in the hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:e3:o2:1
# text = all the silver in the hall
1	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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as much as he could carry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:e3:o3:1
# text = as much as he could carry
1	as	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | could | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the gold he could find in a whole week of searching

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1443-pg503-part30:e3:o4:1
# text = the gold he could find in a whole week of searching
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	searching	searching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | could | the gold |  |  |  | week |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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