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description: What was the amount which Labakan tendered in compensation for the robe? Exam question 1 of lesson 719 «Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's tailor shop and Lizina's first days with the cats» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Exam question 1 · Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's t…

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What was the amount which Labakan tendered in compensation for the robe?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** amount · **What happens:** be, tender · **To what, where:** compensation

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 719 «Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's tailor shop and Lizina's first days with the cats» 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/719-pg2435-part59/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:e1:1
# text = What was the amount which Labakan tendered in compensation for the robe?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	amount	amount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tendered	tender	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	compensation	compensation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the amount |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tender** | past | the amount |  |  | compensation |  | for the robe | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Ten times its price, with the shopkeeper's blessing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:e1:o1:1
# text = Ten times its price, with the shopkeeper's blessing
1	Ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shopkeeper	shopkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bless** |  | the shopkeeper |  |  |  |  |  | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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

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Three times its price

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:e1:o2:1
# text = Three times its price
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Three times its price, paid in advance in silver

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:e1:o3:1
# text = Three times its price, paid in advance in silver
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | participle |  | its price  Three times *not said here* |  | advance |  | in silver | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Three times the cost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:719-pg2435-part59:e1:o4:1
# text = Three times the cost
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cost	cost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

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