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title: how much jam did the tailor buy, like a pound or what? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, Jo… · tree and pragmatics
description: how much jam did the tailor buy, like a pound or what? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1483 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to stone and brought back at a dreadful price» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to ston…

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how much jam did the tailor buy, like a pound or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** much jam · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** tailor buy

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1483 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to stone and brought back at a dreadful price» 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/1483-pg503-part70/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1483-pg503-part70:t10:1
# text = how much jam did the tailor buy, like a pound or what?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	buy	buy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | much jam | the tailor buy |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buy=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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Half a pound, maybe a bit more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1483-pg503-part70:t10:o1:1
# text = Half a pound, maybe a bit more
1	Half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Four ounces, maybe a quarter pound

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1483-pg503-part70:t10:o2:1
# text = Four ounces, maybe a quarter pound
1	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	ounces	ounce	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pound	pound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Three ounces, perhaps a little more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1483-pg503-part70:t10:o3:1
# text = Three ounces, perhaps a little more
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	ounces	ounce	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A whole big jar of jam, more than three pounds in weight altogether

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1483-pg503-part70:t10:o4:1
# text = A whole big jar of jam, more than three pounds in weight altogether
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	jam	jam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	10	advmod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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

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