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title: What total sum did Alnaschar's father bequeath to his sons? — Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33… · tree and pragmatics
description: What total sum did Alnaschar's father bequeath to his sons? Exam question 2 of lesson 193 «Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33: the tailor confesses, the Sultan summons everyone, and Alnaschar dreams of riches» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics 
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# Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33: the tailor confess…

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What total sum did Alnaschar's father bequeath to his sons?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** total sum · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** father bequeath

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 193 «Arabian Nights, The Hunchback, part 33: the tailor confesses, the Sultan summons everyone, and Alnaschar dreams of riches» 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/193-pg128-part33/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:193-pg128-part33:e2:1
# text = What total sum did Alnaschar's father bequeath to his sons?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
2	total	total	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Alnaschar	Alnaschar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bequeath	bequeath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | what total sum | Alnaschar's father bequeath |  |  |  | to sum's sons | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bequeath=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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Seven hundred

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:193-pg128-part33:e2:o1:1
# text = Seven hundred
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Seven thousand gold dinars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:193-pg128-part33:e2:o2:1
# text = Seven thousand gold dinars
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	dinars	dinar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nine hundred silver coins each

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:193-pg128-part33:e2:o3:1
# text = Nine hundred silver coins each
1	Nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	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	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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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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Seven hundred silver drachmas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:193-pg128-part33:e2:o4:1
# text = Seven hundred silver drachmas
1	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	drachmas	drachma	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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