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title: What quantity of iron did the youth request for the shoeing of Dappl… — Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegr… · tree and pragmatics
description: What quantity of iron did the youth request for the shoeing of Dapplegrim? Exam question 4 of lesson 1560 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the youth wins a huge dappled horse and rides to the King's palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and 
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# Exam question 4 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the yout…

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What quantity of iron did the youth request for the shoeing of Dapplegrim?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** quantity · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** youth request

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1560 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the youth wins a huge dappled horse and rides to the King's palace» 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/1560-pg540-part57/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:e4:1
# text = What quantity of iron did the youth request for the shoeing of Dapplegrim?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shoeing	shoeing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | what quantity of iron | the youth request |  |  |  | for the shoeing of Dapplegrim | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Ten pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:e4:o1:1
# text = Ten pounds
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Iron

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:e4:o2:1
# text = Iron
1	Iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Eight pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:e4:o3:1
# text = Eight pounds
1	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Twelve pounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1560-pg540-part57:e4:o4:1
# text = Twelve pounds
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pounds	pound	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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