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title: What reward did the sovereign tender in exchange for the creature? — pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 4… · tree and pragmatics
description: What reward did the sovereign tender in exchange for the creature? Exam question 3 of lesson 1462 «pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is taken in, buys a cat, and sends her to sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Exam question 3 · pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is t…

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What reward did the sovereign tender in exchange for the creature?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** sovereign tender, exchange

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1462 «pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is taken in, buys a cat, and sends her to sea» 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/1462-pg503-part49/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:e3:1
# text = What reward did the sovereign tender in exchange for the creature?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	reward	reward	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | the sovereign tender |  | exchange for the creature |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tender=Eventuality |

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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 {#o1}

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A great palace with all its gardens and a thousand servants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:e3:o1:1
# text = A great palace with all its gardens and a thousand servants
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Half of the kingdom and the princess's hand in marriage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:e3:o2:1
# text = Half of the kingdom and the princess's hand in marriage
1	Half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Rich silks and rubies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:e3:o3:1
# text = Rich silks and rubies
1	Rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	silks	silk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	rubies	ruby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Gold and jewels

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1462-pg503-part49:e3:o4:1
# text = Gold and jewels
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	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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