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title: What quantity of bread did Hans take with him for the journey? — Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid'… · tree and pragmatics
description: What quantity of bread did Hans take with him for the journey? Exam question 2 of lesson 1633 «Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid's son: Hans makes the lake's fish flood the squire's yard and returns with gold from Purgatory» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree 
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# Exam question 2 · Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid's son: Hans makes th…

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What quantity of bread did Hans take with him for the journey?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** quantity · **What happens:** take

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1633 «Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid's son: Hans makes the lake's fish flood the squire's yard and returns with gold from Purgatory» 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/1633-pg5615-part22/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1633-pg5615-part22:e2:1
# text = What quantity of bread did Hans take with him for the journey?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · do-support | what quantity of bread |  |  |  |  | with Hans; for the journey | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for journey=Beneficiary |

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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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One basket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1633-pg5615-part22:e2:o1:1
# text = One basket
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A loaf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1633-pg5615-part22:e2:o2:1
# text = A loaf
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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Two bakings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1633-pg5615-part22:e2:o3:1
# text = Two bakings
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	bakings	baking	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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Three bakings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1633-pg5615-part22:e2:o4:1
# text = Three bakings
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	bakings	baking	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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