--- title: sus, how much debt did the merchants owe? — Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonde… · tree and pragmatics description: sus, how much debt did the merchants owe? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1754 «Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5: the boy loses his cake and his head, then Mark the Rich plots against a baby» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1754-pg641-part5/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonde…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1754-pg641-part5/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5… sus, how much debt did the merchants owe? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sus, merchants · **What happens:** do, owe This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1754 «Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5: the boy loses his cake and his head, then Mark the Rich plots against a baby» 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/1754-pg641-part5/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:t8:1 # text = sus, how much debt did the merchants owe? 1 sus sus NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 debt debt NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 6 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 merchants merchant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 owe owe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | sus and much debt | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **owe** | present | the merchants | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | 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} eight thousand crowns ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:t8:o1:1 # text = eight thousand crowns 1 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 crowns crown NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} twelve thousand crowns to the court in full ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:t8:o2:1 # text = twelve thousand crowns to the court in full 1 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 crowns crown NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} twelve thousand crowns in silver coin ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:t8:o3:1 # text = twelve thousand crowns in silver coin 1 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 crowns crown NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} twelve thousand crowns ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1754-pg641-part5:t8:o4:1 # text = twelve thousand crowns 1 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 crowns crown NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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