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title: Bro, how much gold did the dad fork over for the Persian girl? — Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, how much gold did the dad fork over for the Persian girl? Test 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 pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 2 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Fair Persian, part 46: Khacan buys a s…

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Bro, how much gold did the dad fork over for the Persian girl?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** dad fork

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This is test 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. 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t2:1
# text = Bro, how much gold did the dad fork over for the Persian girl?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fork	fork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Persian	persian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Bro and much gold | the dad fork |  |  |  | for the Persian girl; over *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fork=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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Just 200 gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t2:o1:1
# text = Just 200 gold
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Like 8,000 gold coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t2:o2:1
# text = Like 8,000 gold coins
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	8,000	8,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 gold pieces

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t2:o3:1
# 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.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Like 500 gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:206-pg128-part46:t2:o4:1
# text = Like 500 gold
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	500	500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	gold	gold	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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