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title: Mate, how much did the professor pay Harry, a fiver or what? — Book of Dragons, The Last of the Drago… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, how much did the professor pay Harry, a fiver or what? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 640 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon in Effie's eye is followed by a plague of dragons across the land» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Test 3 · ★ · Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon…

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Mate, how much did the professor pay Harry, a fiver or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** professor · **What happens:** pay · **To what, where:** much

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 640 «Book of Dragons, The Last of the Dragons, part 8: a dragon in Effie's eye is followed by a plague of dragons across the land» 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/640-pg23661-part8/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t3:1
# text = Mate, how much did the professor pay Harry, a fiver or what?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	professor	professor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	Harry	Harry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fiver	fiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past · do-support | the professor | much |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent much=Recipient harry=Asset |

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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 {#o1}

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a tenner, maybe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t3:o1:1
# text = a tenner, maybe
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tenner	tenner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
half a crown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t3:o2:1
# text = half a crown
1	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a fiver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t3:o3:1
# text = a fiver
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fiver	fiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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five shillings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:640-pg23661-part8:t3:o4:1
# text = five shillings
1	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	shillings	shilling	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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