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title: What document did the prince grant the Brahmani in exchange for her… — Tales of the Punjab, The Brahmani's Ad… · tree and pragmatics
description: What document did the prince grant the Brahmani in exchange for her paper? Exam question 1 of lesson 1836 «Tales of the Punjab, The Brahmani's Advice, part 20: the prince buys wisdom, outwits a host, and wins a throne» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Exam question 1 · Tales of the Punjab, The Brahmani's Advice, part 20: the p…

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What document did the prince grant the Brahmani in exchange for her paper?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** document · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** prince grant, exchange

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1836 «Tales of the Punjab, The Brahmani's Advice, part 20: the prince buys wisdom, outwits a host, and wins a throne» 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/1836-pg7128-part20/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1836-pg7128-part20:e1:1
# text = What document did the prince grant the Brahmani in exchange for her paper?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	document	document	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	grant	grant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Brahmani	Brahmani	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | what document | the prince grant |  | exchange for document's paper |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grant=Eventuality |

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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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A promise

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1836-pg7128-part20:e1:o1:1
# text = A promise
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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A parwana for the amount

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1836-pg7128-part20:e1:o2:1
# text = A parwana for the amount
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parwana	parwana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A letter for the sum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1836-pg7128-part20:e1:o3:1
# text = A letter for the sum
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A bond

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1836-pg7128-part20:e1:o4:1
# text = A bond
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bond	bond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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