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title: Wait, did Martin's dad leave them skint or proper rich? — Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, did Martin's dad leave them skint or proper rich? Test 12 · ★ 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; M
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# Test 12 · ★ · Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1: Martin spends his…

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Wait, did Martin's dad leave them skint or proper rich?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, dad · **What happens:** wait, leave · **To what, where:** them

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This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1717-pg640-part41:t12:1
# text = Wait, did Martin's dad leave them skint or proper rich?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	skint	skint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | past · do-support | Martin's dad | them *= they* |  |  |  | skint *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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Nothing at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1717-pg640-part41:t12:o1:1
# text = Nothing at all
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Just debts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1717-pg640-part41:t12:o2:1
# text = Just debts
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	debts	debt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Two hundred florins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1717-pg640-part41:t12: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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A hundred florins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1717-pg640-part41:t12:o4:1
# text = A hundred florins
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
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.

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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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