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title: What was the precise quantity of malt the old man instructed the mou… — Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a p… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the precise quantity of malt the old man instructed the moujik to procure? Exam question 2 of lesson 483 «Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews the feast's beer» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews…

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What was the precise quantity of malt the old man instructed the moujik to procure?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old man · **What happens:** be, instruct, procure · **To what, where:** precise quantity, moujik

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 483 «Russian Folk-Tales, Beer and Corn: a poor man's well brews the feast's beer» 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/483-pg22373-part75/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:e2:1
# text = What was the precise quantity of malt the old man instructed the moujik to procure?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	precise	precise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	malt	malt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	moujik	moujik	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	procure	procure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the precise quantity |  |  |  | of malt | tree rules |
| 2 | **instruct** *speech: other* | past | the old man | the moujik |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent moujik=Recipient |
| 3 | **procure** | to-infinitive | the old man *not said here* | the moujik *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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a third

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:e2:o1:1
# text = a third
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	third	third	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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two full quarters of barley

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:e2:o2:1
# text = two full quarters of barley
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a bushel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:e2:o3:1
# text = a bushel
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bushel	bushel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 quarter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:483-pg22373-part75:e2:o4:1
# text = a quarter
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	quarter	quarter	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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