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title: The king pays six shillings, is that mad cheap or nah? — Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rat… · tree and pragmatics
description: The king pays six shillings, is that mad cheap or nah? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 690 «Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prince Who Would Seek Immortality, part 1: a cat clears the rats from the palace, and a gloomy prince sets out to find a land where no one dies» of the books course 
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# Test 7 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prin…

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The king pays six shillings, is that mad cheap or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** pay, be · **To what, where:** six shillings

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 690 «Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prince Who Would Seek Immortality, part 1: a cat clears the rats from the palace, and a gloomy prince sets out to find a land where no one dies» 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/690-pg2435-part30/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:690-pg2435-part30:t7:1
# text = The king pays six shillings, is that mad cheap or nah?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	shillings	shilling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | present | the king | six shillings |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shilling=Asset |
| 2 | **is** | present | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | cheap *property* | tree rules |

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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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Honestly fair for a cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:690-pg2435-part30:t7:o1:1
# text = Honestly fair for a cat
1	Honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Pretty cheap for a cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:690-pg2435-part30:t7:o2:1
# text = Pretty cheap for a cat
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Actually cheap, the king could have paid far more gold for the whole palace

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:690-pg2435-part30:t7:o3:1
# text = Actually cheap, the king could have paid far more gold for the whole palace
1	Actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | could · perfect · passive |  | the king |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, that's a fortune, the cat was worth way more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:690-pg2435-part30:t7:o4:1
# text = Nah, that's a fortune, the cat was worth way more
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	worth	worth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that | a fortune |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a fortune | worth way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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