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title: What sum did the Demon demand for transforming the lady into a young… — Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What sum did the Demon demand for transforming the lady into a young woman? Exam question 4 of lesson 421 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Spider tricks the gnats, then a Smith's son torments a painted Demon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency t
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# Exam question 4 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Sp…

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What sum did the Demon demand for transforming the lady into a young woman?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Demon demand · **What happens:** transform · **To what, where:** lady

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 421 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Smith and the Demon, part 13: a Spider tricks the gnats, then a Smith's son torments a painted Demon» 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/421-pg22373-part13/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:e4:1
# text = What sum did the Demon demand for transforming the lady into a young woman?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Demon	Demon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	transforming	transform	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	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 | **transform** | gerund | the Demon demand *not said here* | the lady |  |  |  | into a young woman *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent lady=Patient into woman=Result |

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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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Five hundred roubles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:e4:o1:1
# text = Five hundred roubles
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	roubles	rouble	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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Three hundred roubles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:e4:o2:1
# text = Three hundred roubles
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	roubles	rouble	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 roubles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:e4:o3:1
# text = Ten roubles
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	roubles	rouble	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 thousand kopecks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:421-pg22373-part13:e4:o4:1
# text = A thousand kopecks
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	kopecks	kopeck	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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