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title: Mate, how much did the soldier get paid for the dead girl gig? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, how much did the soldier get paid for the dead girl gig? Test 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 and of eac
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# Test 1 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Soldier and the Witch: the soldier…

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Mate, how much did the soldier get paid for the dead girl gig?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate · **What happens:** do, pay · **To what, where:** much, soldier

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This is test 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. 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/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:t1:1
# text = Mate, how much did the soldier get paid for the dead girl gig?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	get	get	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	ccomp	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	gig	gig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate | much |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pay** | present · passive |  | the soldier |  |  |  | for the dead girl gig | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Asset for gig=Theme |

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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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fifty roubles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:t1:o1:1
# text = fifty roubles
1	fifty	fifty	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 2 {#o2}

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a few coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:t1:o2:1
# text = a few coins
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	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 {#o3}

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a hundred and seventy roubles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:t1:o3:1
# 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	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a hundred and fifty roubles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:471-pg22373-part63:t1: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	_	_
```

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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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