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title: how much did Turritella reckon the bracelets were worth, five quid? — Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fi… · tree and pragmatics
description: how much did Turritella reckon the bracelets were worth, five quid? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1869 «Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fiordelisa climbs, is carried by doves, and sells the bracelets» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fiordelisa climbs, is…

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how much did Turritella reckon the bracelets were worth, five quid?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Turritella, bracelets · **What happens:** reckon, be · **To what, where:** much

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1869 «Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 6: Fiordelisa climbs, is carried by doves, and sells the bracelets» 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/1869-pg7277-part6/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:t8:1
# text = how much did Turritella reckon the bracelets were worth, five quid?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bracelets	bracelet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	quid	quid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past · do-support | Turritella | much |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent much=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | past | the bracelets |  |  |  |  | worth *property* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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more than the whole palace is worth, honestly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:t8:o1:1
# text = more than the whole palace is worth, honestly
1	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | than the whole palace; honestly, worth *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
like three silver coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:t8:o2:1
# text = like three silver coins
1	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
about five silver coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:t8:o3:1
# text = about five silver coins
1	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
five silver pieces

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1869-pg7277-part6:t8:o4:1
# text = five silver pieces
1	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pieces	piece	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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