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title: Which sum of money did Mrs. Vinegar instruct her husband to expend u… — English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vine… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which sum of money did Mrs. Vinegar instruct her husband to expend upon a cow? Exam question 4 of lesson 1946 «English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vinegars' gold is traded away piece by piece» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vin…

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Which sum of money did Mrs. Vinegar instruct her husband to expend upon a cow?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sum · **What happens:** instruct, expend, sum · **To what, where:** husband, money

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1946 «English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vinegars' gold is traded away piece by piece» 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/1946-pg7439-part5/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:e4:1
# text = Which sum of money did Mrs. Vinegar instruct her husband to expend upon a cow?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Vinegar	Vinegar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	instruct	instruct	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	expend	expend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **instruct** *speech: other* | present | which sum of money |  | Vinegar's husband |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient |
| 2 | **expend** | to-infinitive | which sum of money *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon a cow | tree rules |
| 3 | **sum** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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forty guineas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:e4:o1:1
# text = forty guineas
1	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	guineas	guinea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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fifty guineas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:e4:o2:1
# text = fifty guineas
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	guineas	guinea	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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ten guineas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:e4:o3:1
# text = ten guineas
1	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	guineas	guinea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a cow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:e4:o4:1
# text = a cow
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cow	cow	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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