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title: bruh, how many guineas did the wife say to spend? — English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vine… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh, how many guineas did the wife say to spend? Test 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 the question and of each option; 
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# Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, part 5: the Vin…

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bruh, how many guineas did the wife say to spend?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many guineas, wife · **What happens:** do, say, spend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 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. 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:t4:1
# text = bruh, how many guineas did the wife say to spend?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	guineas	guinea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | many guineas |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **spend** | to-infinitive | the wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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ninety

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:t4:o1:1
# text = ninety
1	ninety	ninety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
forty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:t4:o2:1
# text = forty
1	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
twenty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:t4:o3:1
# text = twenty
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
fifty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1946-pg7439-part5:t4:o4:1
# text = fifty
1	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

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