--- title: What sum did the assembled slave merchants agree could not reasonabl… — Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beau… · tree and pragmatics description: What sum did the assembled slave merchants agree could not reasonably be refused for the Persian? Exam question 3 of lesson 207 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part 47: Noureddin's friends desert him and the Persian is put up for sale» of the books course of Mova's primary scho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/207-pg128-part47/e3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beau…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/207-pg128-part47/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part… What sum did the assembled slave merchants agree could not reasonably be refused for the Persian? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sum, assembled slave merchants · **What happens:** do, assemble, agree, not refuse · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is exam question 3 of lesson 207 «Arabian Nights, Noureddin and the Beautiful Persian, part 47: Noureddin's friends desert him and the Persian is put up for sale» 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/207-pg128-part47/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:207-pg128-part47:e3:1 # text = What sum did the assembled slave merchants agree could not reasonably be refused for the Persian? 1 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 assembled assemble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 6 slave slave NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 merchants merchant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 agree agree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 9 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 11 reasonably reasonably ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 refused refuse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 ccomp _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Persian Persian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | what sum | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **assemble** | participle | | | | | | | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | the assembled slave merchants | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **refuse** | could · passive | | | | | | for the Persian; reasonably *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING» | 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} Three thousand gold pieces ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:207-pg128-part47:e3:o1:1 # text = Three thousand gold pieces 1 Three three 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 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Four hundred ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:207-pg128-part47:e3:o2:1 # text = Four hundred 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Two thousand ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:207-pg128-part47:e3:o3:1 # text = Two thousand 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 compound _ _ 2 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Four thousand gold pieces ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:207-pg128-part47:e3:o4:1 # text = Four thousand gold pieces 1 Four four 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 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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