--- title: What was the precise sum the lad offered the king in loan? — Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad… · tree and pragmatics description: What was the precise sum the lad offered the king in loan? Exam question 3 of lesson 1655 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part 44: the lad serves the troll as hare, raven and fish, and meets the troll's daughter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1655-pg5615-part44/e3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1655-pg5615-part44/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part… What was the precise sum the lad offered the king in loan? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lad · **What happens:** be, offer · **To what, where:** precise sum, king, loan This is exam question 3 of lesson 1655 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part 44: the lad serves the troll as hare, raven and fish, and meets the troll's daughter» 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/1655-pg5615-part44/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1655-pg5615-part44:e3:1 # text = What was the precise sum the lad offered the king in loan? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 precise precise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 loan loan NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the precise sum | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **offer** | past | the lad | the king | | loan | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent king=Theme | 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} Six bushels of money, borrowed against his own future and freedom ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1655-pg5615-part44:e3:o1:1 # text = Six bushels of money, borrowed against his own future and freedom 1 Six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 bushels bushel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 borrowed borrow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 7 against against ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 future future NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 freedom freedom NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **borrow** | participle | | Six bushels of money *not said here* | | | | against his own future and freedom | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} Six full bushels of gold and silver coins stacked in the king's great hall ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1655-pg5615-part44:e3:o2:1 # text = Six full bushels of gold and silver coins stacked in the king's great hall 1 Six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bushels bushel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 stacked stack VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stack** | participle | | silver coins *not said here* | | the king's great hall | | | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hall=Destination | ### Option 3 {#o3} Five bushels of silver ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1655-pg5615-part44:e3:o3:1 # text = Five bushels of silver 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 bushels bushel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Six bushels of money ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1655-pg5615-part44:e3:o4:1 # text = Six bushels of money 1 Six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 bushels bushel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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