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title: What sum did the brothers stipulate as the dowry of the Princess Ros… — Yellow Fairy Book, The King of the Pea… · tree and pragmatics
description: What sum did the brothers stipulate as the dowry of the Princess Rosette? Exam question 3 of lesson 1525 «Yellow Fairy Book, The King of the Peacocks, part 22: the brothers find the King of the Peacocks and go to prison» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Exam question 3 · Yellow Fairy Book, The King of the Peacocks, part 22: the…

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What sum did the brothers stipulate as the dowry of the Princess Rosette?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sum, brothers · **What happens:** do, stipulate

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1525 «Yellow Fairy Book, The King of the Peacocks, part 22: the brothers find the King of the Peacocks and go to prison» 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/1525-pg540-part22/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1525-pg540-part22:e3:1
# text = What sum did the brothers stipulate as the dowry of the Princess Rosette?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stipulate	stipulate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dowry	dowry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Rosette	Rosette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | what sum |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stipulate** | present | the brothers |  |  |  |  | as the dowry of the Princess Rosette | tree rules |

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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 bushel of gold pieces and a herd of cows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1525-pg540-part22:e3:o1:1
# text = a bushel of gold pieces and a herd of cows
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bushel	bushel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a bushel of gold pieces and all of their father's farmland

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1525-pg540-part22:e3:o2:1
# text = a bushel of gold pieces and all of their father's farmland
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bushel	bushel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	farmland	farmland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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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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a bushel of gold pieces

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1525-pg540-part22:e3:o3:1
# text = a bushel of gold pieces
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bushel	bushel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a barrel of silver pieces

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1525-pg540-part22:e3:o4:1
# text = a barrel of silver pieces
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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