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title: Bruv, so how much bread did the troll owe him after one year? — Norse Tales, The Troll's Heart: the yo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, so how much bread did the troll owe him after one year? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1656 «Norse Tales, The Troll's Heart: the youth frees himself, pays the king's debt, and wins the troll's heart» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 2 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Troll's Heart: the youth frees himself, p…

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Bruv, so how much bread did the troll owe him after one year?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bruv, troll · **What happens:** do, owe · **To what, where:** Bruv

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1656 «Norse Tales, The Troll's Heart: the youth frees himself, pays the king's debt, and wins the troll's heart» 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/1656-pg5615-part45/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1656-pg5615-part45:t2:1
# text = Bruv, so how much bread did the troll owe him after one year?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	troll	troll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	owe	owe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Bruv |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **owe** | infinitive | the troll | Bruv |  |  | year |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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one bread loaf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1656-pg5615-part45:t2:o1:1
# text = one bread loaf
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	loaf	loaf	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 -->
three bushels of money

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1656-pg5615-part45:t2:o2:1
# text = three bushels of money
1	three	three	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	_	_
```

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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 bags of bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1656-pg5615-part45:t2:o3:1
# text = three bags of bread
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
four bushels of grain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1656-pg5615-part45:t2:o4:1
# text = four bushels of grain
1	four	four	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	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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