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title: What price, in purses, was demanded for the ivory perspective glass? — Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the F… · tree and pragmatics
description: What price, in purses, was demanded for the ivory perspective glass? Exam question 2 of lesson 1494 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 81: the brothers' gifts save the Princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, par…

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What price, in purses, was demanded for the ivory perspective glass?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** price, demand · **To what, where:** price

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1494 «Arabian Nights, Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peri Banou, part 81: the brothers' gifts save the Princess» 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/1494-pg503-part81/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:e2:1
# text = What price, in purses, was demanded for the ivory perspective glass?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	demanded	demand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	ivory	ivory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	perspective	perspective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **price** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | past · passive |  | price and purses |  |  |  | for the ivory perspective glass | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition |

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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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Ten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:e2:o1:1
# text = Ten
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fifty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:e2:o2:1
# text = Fifty
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Thirty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:e2:o3:1
# text = Thirty
1	Thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Three hundred purses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1494-pg503-part81:e2:o4:1
# text = Three hundred purses
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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