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title: what's a ransom, like, in normal words? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Bird Grip, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's a ransom, like, in normal words? Test 8 · ★ 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 question and of ea
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# Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Bird Grip, part 24: the youngest…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
what's a ransom, like, in normal words?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** ransom

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1635-pg5615-part24:t8:1
# text = what's a ransom, like, in normal words?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ransom	ransom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a ransom and normal words |  |  |  |  | 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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a gift

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1635-pg5615-part24:t8:o1:1
# text = a gift
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
paying money to buy back your life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1635-pg5615-part24:t8:o2:1
# text = paying money to buy back your life
1	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | gerund |  | money |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Asset |
| 2 | **buy back** | to-infinitive |  | your life |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
paying a fee to leave town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1635-pg5615-part24:t8:o3:1
# text = paying a fee to leave town
1	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fee	fee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | gerund |  | a fee |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fee=Asset |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive |  | town |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
giving a king a fine horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1635-pg5615-part24:t8:o4:1
# text = giving a king a fine horse
1	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund |  | a fine horse | a king |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient horse=Theme |

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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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