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title: Hang on, how much were the plums, like, actually? — Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hang on, how much were the plums, like, actually? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1901 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic plums, sells them, and unmasks the horned Princess» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic…

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Hang on, how much were the plums, like, actually?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** hang on, be · **To what, where:** much plums

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1901 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic plums, sells them, and unmasks the horned Princess» 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/1901-pg7277-part38/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t5:1
# text = Hang on, how much were the plums, like, actually?
1	Hang	hang	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	plums	plum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang on** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the much plums |  |  |  |  | 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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fifty pence each

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t5:o1:1
# text = fifty pence each
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	pence	pence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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fifty crowns each for the plums

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t5:o2:1
# text = fifty crowns each for the plums
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plums	plum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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fifty crowns each

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t5:o3:1
# text = fifty crowns each
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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twenty crowns each

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1901-pg7277-part38:t5:o4:1
# text = twenty crowns each
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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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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