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title: By what means did the basket traverse the sea? — Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what means did the basket traverse the sea? Exam question 2 of lesson 1365 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher, part 25: the brothers swap jobs and the hook is lost» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Exam question 2 · Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fi…

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By what means did the basket traverse the sea?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** basket · **What happens:** mean, traverse · **To what, where:** sea

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1365 «Japanese Fairy Tales, The Happy Hunter and the Skillful Fisher, part 25: the brothers swap jobs and the hook is lost» 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/1365-pg4018-part25/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:e2:1
# text = By what means did the basket traverse the sea?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	traverse	traverse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **traverse** | past · do-support | the basket | the sea |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Co-Theme |

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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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With magic words

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:e2:o1:1
# text = With magic words
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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By oars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:e2:o2:1
# text = By oars
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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By its own accord

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:e2:o3:1
# text = By its own accord
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	accord	accord	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 the current

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1365-pg4018-part25:e2:o4:1
# text = By the current
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	current	current	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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