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title: how many grains of gold does the fox give for the horse? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Bird Grip, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: how many grains of gold does the fox give for the horse? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1635 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Bird Grip, part 24: the youngest prince pays a murderous host, escapes, and meets the fox again» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Bird Grip, part 24: the youngest…

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how many grains of gold does the fox give for the horse?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many grains · **What happens:** give

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1635 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Bird Grip, part 24: the youngest prince pays a murderous host, escapes, and meets the fox again» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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/1635-pg5615-part24/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1635-pg5615-part24:t10:1
# text = how many grains of gold does the fox give for the horse?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · do-support | many grains of gold |  |  |  |  | for the horse | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent for horse=Asset |

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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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three grains of gold and a silver bell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1635-pg5615-part24:t10:o1:1
# text = three grains of gold and a silver bell
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1635-pg5615-part24:t10:o2:1
# text = three
1	three	three	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 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three golden grains, and one more if the horse is fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1635-pg5615-part24:t10:o3:1
# text = three golden grains, and one more if the horse is fast
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the horse |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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four

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1635-pg5615-part24:t10:o4:1
# text = four
1	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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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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