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title: fr, what did people pay him for at the end? — Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: an… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, what did people pay him for at the end? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1914 «Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last dance, and a cure» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last…

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fr, what did people pay him for at the end?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** people · **What happens:** pay · **To what, where:** fr

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1914 «Fairy Book, Hok Lee and the Dwarfs: angry dwarfs, one last dance, and a cure» 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/1914-pg7277-part51/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t7:1
# text = fr, what did people pay him for at the end?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past · do-support | people | fr |  |  | for the end |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Recipient he=Asset for end=Theme |

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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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a secret of the woods

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t7:o1:1
# text = a secret of the woods
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	secret	secret	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	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the dwarfs' secret cure, which only they knew how to brew

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t7:o2:1
# text = the dwarfs' secret cure, which only they knew how to brew
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	brew	brew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | dwarfs *= dwarf* | the dwarfs's secret cure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **brew** | to-infinitive | dwarfs *= dwarf* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a cure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t7:o3:1
# text = a cure
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the dwarfs' secret cure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1914-pg7277-part51:t7:o4:1
# text = the dwarfs' secret cure
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cure	cure	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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