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title: What sum did the butchers demand for the dog? — Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: What sum did the butchers demand for the dog? Exam question 4 of lesson 1717 «Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1: Martin spends his mother's money on a dog and a cat» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Exam question 4 · Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1: Martin spends his…

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What sum did the butchers demand for the dog?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sum, butchers · **What happens:** do, demand

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1717 «Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1: Martin spends his mother's money on a dog and a cat» 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/1717-pg640-part41/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1717-pg640-part41:e4:1
# text = What sum did the butchers demand for the dog?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	butchers	butcher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	demand	demand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | what sum |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | present | the butchers |  |  |  |  | for the dog | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Three hundred ducats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1717-pg640-part41:e4:o1:1
# text = Three hundred ducats
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	ducats	ducat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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One hundred florins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1717-pg640-part41:e4:o2:1
# text = One hundred florins
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	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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Two hundred florins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1717-pg640-part41:e4:o3:1
# text = Two hundred florins
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	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 {#o4}

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One hundred florins and a silver cup from the shop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1717-pg640-part41:e4:o4:1
# text = One hundred florins and a silver cup from the shop
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	florins	florin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	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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