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title: Which god appeared to the Woodman after his axe was lost in the pool? — Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Me… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which god appeared to the Woodman after his axe was lost in the pool? Exam question 1 of lesson 372 «Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woodman gets all three axes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Exam question 1 · Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woo…

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Which god appeared to the Woodman after his axe was lost in the pool?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** god · **What happens:** appear, lose · **To what, where:** axe, pool

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 372 «Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woodman gets all three axes» 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/372-pg19994-part11/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:e1:1
# text = Which god appeared to the Woodman after his axe was lost in the pool?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Woodman	Woodman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | which god |  |  |  |  | to the Woodman | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | past · passive |  | god's axe |  | the pool |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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Pluto

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:e1:o1:1
# text = Pluto
1	Pluto	Pluto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Mercury

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:e1:o2:1
# text = Mercury
1	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	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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Zeus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:e1:o3:1
# text = Zeus
1	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	NNP	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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Apollo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:e1:o4:1
# text = Apollo
1	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	NNP	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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