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title: Eighteen dollars a year, is that bare money or what? — Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eighteen dollars a year, is that bare money or what? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 946 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes back, asks for Emily's hand, and is refused» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes…

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Eighteen dollars a year, is that bare money or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Eighteen dollars · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** bare money

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 946 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes back, asks for Emily's hand, and is refused» 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/946-pg27200-part157/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:946-pg27200-part157:t11:1
# text = Eighteen dollars a year, is that bare money or what?
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Eighteen dollars  a year | that bare money |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Not much, bare low

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:946-pg27200-part157:t11:o1:1
# text = Not much, bare low
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Not much, bare low, for a man who works so hard all day

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:946-pg27200-part157:t11:o2:1
# text = Not much, bare low, for a man who works so hard all day
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | a low man |  |  |  | day | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Not much at all, it is bare low pay indeed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:946-pg27200-part157:t11:o3:1
# text = Not much at all, it is bare low pay indeed
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | bare low pay |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Very good, quite high

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:946-pg27200-part157:t11:o4:1
# text = Very good, quite high
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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