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title: The merchant only gave two talers a skin, that's gutted, right? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Cat… · tree and pragmatics
description: The merchant only gave two talers a skin, that's gutted, right? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 752 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine: a careless wife ruins the dinner, and the gold is stolen.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine: a careless w…

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The merchant only gave two talers a skin, that's gutted, right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** merchant · **What happens:** give, gut · **To what, where:** two talers, that

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 752 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine: a careless wife ruins the dinner, and the gold is stolen.» 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/752-pg2591-part28/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:752-pg2591-part28:t10:1
# text = The merchant only gave two talers a skin, that's gutted, right?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	talers	taler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	gutted	gut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the merchant | two talers |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent taler=Recipient skin=Theme |
| 2 | **gut** | present · passive |  | that |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Yeah, the greedy lot got ripped off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:752-pg2591-part28:t10:o1:1
# text = Yeah, the greedy lot got ripped off
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	ripped	rip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rip off** | past · passive |  | the greedy lot |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, they were cheated badly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:752-pg2591-part28:t10:o2:1
# text = Yeah, they were cheated badly
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	cheated	cheat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cheat** | past · passive |  | they |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, that's rough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:752-pg2591-part28:t10:o3:1
# text = Yeah, that's rough
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | rough *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, two talers was fair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:752-pg2591-part28:t10:o4:1
# text = Nah, two talers was fair
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	talers	taler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | two talers |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |

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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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