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title: Which sum in gold pieces did Khacan pay to the merchant for the purc… — Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which sum in gold pieces did Khacan pay to the merchant for the purchase of the slave? Exam question 2 of lesson 206 «Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a slave for the king, and his son falls for her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pra
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# Exam question 2 · Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a s…

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Which sum in gold pieces did Khacan pay to the merchant for the purchase of the slave?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sum · **What happens:** pay, purchase · **To what, where:** slave

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 206 «Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a slave for the king, and his son falls for her» 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/206-pg128-part46/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:e2:1
# text = Which sum in gold pieces did Khacan pay to the merchant for the purchase of the slave?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	Khacan	Khacan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	purchase	purchase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past · do-support | which sum in gold pieces |  |  |  |  | to the merchant; for the purchase of the slave | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for purchase=Theme |
| 2 | **purchase** |  |  | the slave |  |  |  |  | nom purchase «act 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 {#o1}

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10,000 gold pieces and a horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:e2:o1:1
# text = 10,000 gold pieces and a horse
1	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
8,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:e2:o2:1
# text = 8,000
1	8,000	8,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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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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10,000

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:e2:o3:1
# text = 10,000
1	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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 -->
10,000 gold pieces

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:e2:o4:1
# text = 10,000 gold pieces
1	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pieces	piece	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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