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title: Wait, what did the butchers want for the dog, like, real cash? — Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what did the butchers want for the dog, like, real cash? Test 2 · ★ 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 opt
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# Test 2 · ★ · Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1: Martin spends his…

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Wait, what did the butchers want for the dog, like, real cash?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, butchers · **What happens:** wait, do, want · **To what, where:** real cash

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1717-pg640-part41:t2:1
# text = Wait, what did the butchers want for the dog, like, real cash?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	butchers	butcher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cash	cash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	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* | real cash |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **want** | present | the butchers |  |  |  |  | for the dog | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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A hundred florins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1717-pg640-part41:t2:o1:1
# 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.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Ten florins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1717-pg640-part41:t2:o2:1
# text = Ten florins
1	Ten	ten	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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Ninety guilders

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1717-pg640-part41:t2:o3:1
# text = Ninety guilders
1	Ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	guilders	guilder	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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Fifty crowns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1717-pg640-part41:t2:o4:1
# text = Fifty crowns
1	Fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	crowns	crown	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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