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title: so the greedy woodmen got what from Mercury? — Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Me… · tree and pragmatics
description: so the greedy woodmen got what from Mercury? Test 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 option; Mova's choice was right
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# Test 4 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woo…

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so the greedy woodmen got what from Mercury?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** greedy woodmen · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** Mercury

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This is test 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. 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:t4:1
# text = so the greedy woodmen got what from Mercury?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	woodmen	woodman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the greedy woodmen |  |  | Mercury |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Theme from mercury=Source |

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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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a shout from above

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:t4:o1:1
# text = a shout from above
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	above	above	ADV	RB	_	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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a whack on the head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:t4:o2:1
# text = a whack on the head
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whack	whack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a whack

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:t4:o3:1
# text = a whack
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whack	whack	NOUN	NN	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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a scolding

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:372-pg19994-part11:t4:o4:1
# text = a scolding
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	scolding	scolding	NOUN	NN	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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