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title: Which agent was responsible for the crushing of the mustard seed oil? — Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which agent was responsible for the crushing of the mustard seed oil? Exam question 1 of lesson 1820 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins her with ants, tigers, a flying bed and a hair» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Exam question 1 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins he…

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Which agent was responsible for the crushing of the mustard seed oil?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** agent · **What happens:** be, crush · **To what, where:** seed oil

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1820 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins her with ants, tigers, a flying bed and a hair» 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/1820-pg7128-part4/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1820-pg7128-part4:e1:1
# text = Which agent was responsible for the crushing of the mustard seed oil?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	agent	agent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	responsible	responsible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	crushing	crushing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	mustard	mustard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | which agent |  |  |  |  | for the crushing of the seed oil; responsible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **crush** |  |  | the seed oil |  |  |  |  | nom crushing «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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the ants of the Ant-Raja

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1820-pg7128-part4:e1:o1:1
# text = the ants of the Ant-Raja
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Ant	Ant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the king's cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1820-pg7128-part4:e1:o2:1
# text = the king's cook
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	cook	cook	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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the Ant-Raja's bees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1820-pg7128-part4:e1:o3:1
# text = the Ant-Raja's bees
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Ant	Ant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the tigers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1820-pg7128-part4:e1:o4:1
# text = the tigers
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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