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title: By what means was the mill destroyed in the final account? — Andersen's Tales, The Wind Tells about… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means was the mill destroyed in the final account? Exam question 3 of lesson 1030 «Andersen's Tales, The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and His Daughters: the stork's nest, Anna Dorothea's end, the mill that burned» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and p
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and H…

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By what means was the mill destroyed in the final account?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** mean, be, destroy · **To what, where:** mill, final account

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1030 «Andersen's Tales, The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and His Daughters: the stork's nest, Anna Dorothea's end, the mill that burned» 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/1030-pg27200-part241/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1030-pg27200-part241:e3:1
# text = By what means was the mill destroyed in the final account?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	final	final	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the mill |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **destroy** | participle |  | the mill *not said here* |  | the final account |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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By the wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1030-pg27200-part241:e3:o1:1
# text = By the wind
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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By a conflagration

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1030-pg27200-part241:e3:o2:1
# text = By a conflagration
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	conflagration	conflagration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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By storm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1030-pg27200-part241:e3:o3:1
# text = By storm
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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By a flood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1030-pg27200-part241:e3:o4:1
# text = By a flood
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	flood	flood	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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**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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