--- title: Identify the sum of money first paid to the Soldier by the merchant. — Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and th… · tree and pragmatics description: Identify the sum of money first paid to the Soldier by the merchant. Exam question 1 of lesson 471 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier drives a witch's coffin and tricks her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/471-pg22373-part63/e1/) [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/) / [Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/471-pg22373-part63/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier… Identify the sum of money first paid to the Soldier by the merchant. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, sum · **What happens:** identify, pay, sum · **To what, where:** money This is exam question 1 of lesson 471 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier drives a witch's coffin and tricks 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/471-pg22373-part63/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:e1:1 # text = Identify the sum of money first paid to the Soldier by the merchant. 1 Identify identify VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 advmod _ _ 7 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Soldier soldier NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 merchant merchant NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **pay** | past | the sum of money | | | | | to the Soldier; by the merchant; first *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sum** | | | money | | | | | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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} a hundred and seventy roubles ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:e1:o1:1 # text = a hundred and seventy roubles 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 seventy seventy NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ 5 roubles rouble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a small sum ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:e1:o2:1 # text = a small sum 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 sum sum NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} fifty roubles ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:e1:o3:1 # text = fifty roubles 1 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 roubles rouble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} a hundred and fifty roubles ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:e1:o4:1 # text = a hundred and fifty roubles 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ 5 roubles rouble 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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