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title: did the crier try to sell him the tapestry for less in the end? — Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prin… · tree and pragmatics
description: did the crier try to sell him the tapestry for less in the end? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1493 «Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 80: Houssain buys a magic tapestry in Bisnagar» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fai…

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did the crier try to sell him the tapestry for less in the end?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** crier · **What happens:** try, sell · **To what, where:** tapestry, crier, end

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1493 «Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 80: Houssain buys a magic tapestry in Bisnagar» 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/1493-pg503-part80/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1493-pg503-part80:t10:1
# text = did the crier try to sell him the tapestry for less in the end?
1	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crier	crier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past · do-support | the crier |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sell** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the crier *not said here* | the tapestry | crier |  | in the end | for less | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tapestry=Theme for less=Asset |

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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 -->
Yeah, thirty purses, fair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1493-pg503-part80:t10:o1:1
# text = Yeah, thirty purses, fair
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, forty purses, no discount

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1493-pg503-part80:t10:o2:1
# text = Nah, forty purses, no discount
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	discount	discount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, down to twenty-five purses once Houssain threatened to walk out of the shop

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1493-pg503-part80:t10:o3:1
# text = Yeah, down to twenty-five purses once Houssain threatened to walk out of the shop
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **threaten** | past |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the shop |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Attribute |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he dropped it to thirty purses after Houssain argued with him for a whole hour

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1493-pg503-part80:t10:o4:1
# text = Yeah, he dropped it to thirty purses after Houssain argued with him for a whole hour
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	csubj:pass	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
11	argued	argue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | past | he | it |  | thirty purses |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to purse=Destination |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | past |  |  |  |  | after Houssain; hour | with Houssain | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |

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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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