--- title: How many axes did Mercury finally bestow upon the honest Woodman? — Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Me… · tree and pragmatics description: How many axes did Mercury finally bestow upon the honest Woodman? Exam question 4 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 optio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/372-pg19994-part11/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Me…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/372-pg19994-part11/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woo… How many axes did Mercury finally bestow upon the honest Woodman? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many axes · **What happens:** bestow This is exam question 4 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/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:e4:1 # text = How many axes did Mercury finally bestow upon the honest Woodman? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 axes ax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 Mercury Mercury PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 6 finally finally ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 bestow bestow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 upon upon ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 honest honest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 Woodman Woodman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bestow** | present | many axes | | | | | upon the honest Woodman; finally *property* | tree rules | 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} Three axes. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:e4:o1:1 # text = Three axes. 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 axes ax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Two axes too. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:e4:o2:1 # text = Two axes too. 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 axes ax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} All three of the axes that he had lost in the pool. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:e4:o3:1 # text = All three of the axes that he had lost in the pool. 1 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 axes ax NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl:relcl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 pool pool NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | past · perfect · passive | | the axes | | the pool | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ### Option 4 {#o4} Three coins. ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:e4:o4:1 # text = Three coins. 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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