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title: bruh the woodman's axe sank in the pool, so who showed up to help him? — Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Me… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh the woodman's axe sank in the pool, so who showed up to help him? Test 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 optio
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# Test 1 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woo…

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bruh the woodman's axe sank in the pool, so who showed up to help him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** axe · **What happens:** sink, show up, help · **To what, where:** pool, him

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This is test 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. 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/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:t1:1
# text = bruh the woodman's axe sank in the pool, so who showed up to help him?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	woodman	woodman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past | the woodman's axe |  |  | the pool |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **show up** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive |  |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

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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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the god Apollo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:t1:o1:1
# text = the god Apollo
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	god	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Apollo	Apollo	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 {#o2}

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a god

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:t1:o2:1
# text = a god
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	god	god	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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Zeus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:t1: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 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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the god Mercury

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:t1:o4:1
# text = the god Mercury
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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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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