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title: Lol, who bought him for eightpence? — Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fort… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, who bought him for eightpence? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 841 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the clerk, now a lark, is bought and placed in a lady's cage» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the cl…

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Lol, who bought him for eightpence?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** buy · **To what, where:** him

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 841 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the clerk, now a lark, is bought and placed in a lady's cage» 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/841-pg27200-part52/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:t2:1
# text = Lol, who bought him for eightpence?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bought	buy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	eightpence	eightpence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past |  |  | him *= he* |  |  | for eightpence | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for eightpence=Beneficiary |

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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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the lady of the house and her two sons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:t2:o1:1
# text = the lady of the house and her two sons
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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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 -->
two schoolboys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:t2:o2:1
# text = two schoolboys
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	schoolboys	schoolboy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a passing sailor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:t2:o3:1
# text = a passing sailor
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	sailor	sailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a poor farmer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:t2:o4:1
# text = a poor farmer
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	farmer	farmer	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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