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title: bro what was the dragon paying stan for three days' work? — Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro what was the dragon paying stan for three days' work? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1769 «Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants children, gets a hundred, and meets a dragon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Test 11 · ★ · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants c…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bro what was the dragon paying stan for three days' work?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro, dragon, three days · **What happens:** be, pay, work · **To what, where:** dragon, stan

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1769 «Roumanian Fairy Tales, Stan Bolovan, part 20: Stan wants children, gets a hundred, and meets a dragon» 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/1769-pg641-part20/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1769-pg641-part20:t11:1
# text = bro what was the dragon paying stan for three days' work?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	paying	pay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	stan	Stan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	'	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | bro | the dragon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | gerund | the dragon *not said here* | stan |  |  |  | for three days's work | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent stan=Asset for work=Theme |
| 3 | **work** |  | three days |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
seven silver coins a week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1769-pg641-part20:t11:o1:1
# text = seven silver coins a week
1	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
seven sacks of ducats a day, plus his own bed, a horse and a warm meal

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1769-pg641-part20:t11:o2:1
# text = seven sacks of ducats a day, plus his own bed, a horse and a warm meal
1	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ducats	ducat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
seven sacks of ducats a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1769-pg641-part20:t11:o3:1
# text = seven sacks of ducats a day
1	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ducats	ducat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nine sacks of grain a week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1769-pg641-part20:t11:o4:1
# text = nine sacks of grain a week
1	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	sacks	sack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

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