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title: In what manner did the poor man acquire the hand-mill? — Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill… · tree and pragmatics
description: In what manner did the poor man acquire the hand-mill? Exam question 1 of lesson 1446 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper buys the magic mill for salt» 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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# Exam question 1 · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper…

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In what manner did the poor man acquire the hand-mill?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** poor man · **What happens:** acquire · **To what, where:** hand mill, manner

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1446 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Mill, part 33: a skipper buys the magic mill for salt» 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/1446-pg503-part33/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1446-pg503-part33:e1:1
# text = In what manner did the poor man acquire the hand-mill?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	acquire	acquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **acquire** | past · do-support | the poor man | the hand mill |  | what manner |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=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 {#o1}

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By selling his horse for gold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1446-pg503-part33:e1:o1:1
# text = By selling his horse for gold
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	selling	sell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | gerund |  | his horse |  |  |  | for gold | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent horse=Theme for gold=Asset |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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By exchanging his ham for it at the door of the rich brother's house

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1446-pg503-part33:e1:o2:1
# text = By exchanging his ham for it at the door of the rich brother's house
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	exchanging	exchange	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	ham	ham	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exchange** | gerund |  | his ham |  | the door of the rich brother's house |  | for ham | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent ham=Theme for it=Co-Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
By exchanging his ham for it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1446-pg503-part33:e1:o3:1
# text = By exchanging his ham for it
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	exchanging	exchange	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	ham	ham	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exchange** | gerund |  | his ham |  |  |  | for ham | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent ham=Theme for it=Co-Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
By trading his cow for it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1446-pg503-part33:e1:o4:1
# text = By trading his cow for it
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	trading	trade	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trade** | gerund |  | his cow |  |  |  | for it | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent cow=Theme for it=Co-Theme |

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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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