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title: yeah but how much did the crier want for the tapestry first? — Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prin… · tree and pragmatics
description: yeah but how much did the crier want for the tapestry first? Test 5 · ★ 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 pragmatics o
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# Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg503), The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fai…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah but how much did the crier want for the tapestry first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** crier · **What happens:** do, want · **To what, where:** much

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1493-pg503-part80:t5:1
# text = yeah but how much did the crier want for the tapestry first?
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	crier	crier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | much |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Eventuality |
| 2 | **want** | present | the crier |  |  |  |  | for the tapestry; first *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Thirty pieces of gold, fair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1493-pg503-part80:t5:o1:1
# text = Thirty pieces of gold, fair
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Eighty purses, and he laughed when Houssain offered anything less than that

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1493-pg503-part80:t5:o2:1
# text = Eighty purses, and he laughed when Houssain offered anything less than that
1	Eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
8	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | Eighty purses |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **offer** | past | Houssain | anything |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent anything=Goal that=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Thirty purses, but he would take forty if you hesitated for even one moment

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1493-pg503-part80:t5:o3:1
# text = Thirty purses, but he would take forty if you hesitated for even one moment
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
8	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | would | he | forty |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forty=Theme |
| 2 | **hesitate** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you |  |  |  | moment |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Thirty purses, dead cheeky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1493-pg503-part80:t5:o4:1
# text = Thirty purses, dead cheeky
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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