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title: What proportion of the buried money was Hans required to bestow upon… — Household Tales, Hans Who Feared Nothi… · tree and pragmatics
description: What proportion of the buried money was Hans required to bestow upon the poor? Exam question 4 of lesson 1800 «Household Tales, Hans Who Feared Nothing: Hans meets the dwarfs and finds the hidden treasure» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Exam question 4 · Household Tales, Hans Who Feared Nothing: Hans meets the d…

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What proportion of the buried money was Hans required to bestow upon the poor?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** proportion · **What happens:** bury, be, require, bestow · **To what, where:** Hans

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1800 «Household Tales, Hans Who Feared Nothing: Hans meets the dwarfs and finds the hidden treasure» 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/1800-pg641-part51/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1800-pg641-part51:e4:1
# text = What proportion of the buried money was Hans required to bestow upon the poor?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	proportion	proportion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	Hans	han	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	bestow	bestow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | what proportion of the buried money | Hans |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **require** | participle |  | Hans *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 4 | **bestow** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | upon the poor | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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All of it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1800-pg641-part51:e4:o1:1
# text = All of it
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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 third of the whole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1800-pg641-part51:e4:o2:1
# text = One third of the whole
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Half

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1800-pg641-part51:e4:o3:1
# text = Half
1	Half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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A quarter of the total

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1800-pg641-part51:e4:o4:1
# text = A quarter of the total
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	total	total	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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