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title: What sum did Ciccu pay the innkeeper for the meal? — Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Stor… · tree and pragmatics
description: What sum did Ciccu pay the innkeeper for the meal? Exam question 4 of lesson 1672 «Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61: the princess begs Ciccu's purse for a copy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Exam question 4 · Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61:…

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What sum did Ciccu pay the innkeeper for the meal?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sum · **What happens:** pay · **To what, where:** innkeeper

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1672 «Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61: the princess begs Ciccu's purse for a copy» 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/1672-pg5615-part61/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1672-pg5615-part61:e4:1
# text = What sum did Ciccu pay the innkeeper for the meal?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past · do-support | what sum | the innkeeper |  |  |  | for the meal | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent innkeeper=Asset for meal=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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Six florins, taken from the purse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1672-pg5615-part61:e4:o1:1
# text = Six florins, taken from the purse
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	florins	florin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | participle | Six florins |  |  | the purse |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from purse=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Twelve florins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1672-pg5615-part61:e4:o2:1
# text = Twelve florins
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	florins	florin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Eight florins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1672-pg5615-part61:e4:o3:1
# text = Eight florins
1	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	florins	florin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Six florins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1672-pg5615-part61:e4:o4:1
# text = Six florins
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	florins	florin	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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**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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