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title: Identify the commodity exchanged by the protagonist at market. — Blue Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstal… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the commodity exchanged by the protagonist at market. Exam question 1 of lesson 1535 «Blue Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 1: Jack trades the cow for magic beans» 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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# Exam question 1 · Blue Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 1: Jack trad…

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Identify the commodity exchanged by the protagonist at market.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, exchange · **To what, where:** commodity, market

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1535 «Blue Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 1: Jack trades the cow for magic beans» 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/1535-pg540-part32/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1535-pg540-part32:e1:1
# text = Identify the commodity exchanged by the protagonist at market.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	commodity	commodity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	exchanged	exchange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the commodity |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent commodity=Theme |
| 2 | **exchange** | participle |  | the commodity *not said here* |  | market |  | by the protagonist | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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Jack's mother's cow traded for some scarlet-runner beans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1535-pg540-part32:e1:o1:1
# text = Jack's mother's cow traded for some scarlet-runner beans
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	traded	trade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
9	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	runner	runner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trade** | past | Jack's mother's cow |  |  |  |  | for some runner beans | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent for bean=Co-Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A goat for seeds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1535-pg540-part32:e1:o2:1
# text = A goat for seeds
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The family's prize milking cow for a bag of magic beans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1535-pg540-part32:e1:o3:1
# text = The family's prize milking cow for a bag of magic beans
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	milking	milking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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The cow for beans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1535-pg540-part32:e1:o4:1
# text = The cow for beans
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	beans	bean	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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**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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