--- title: By what means did the Crow raise the level of the water within the p… — Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a… · tree and pragmatics description: By what means did the Crow raise the level of the water within the pitcher? Exam question 3 of lesson 397 «Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house is robbed while he reads other people's fortunes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/397-pg21-part18/e3/) [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's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/397-pg21-part18/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house… By what means did the Crow raise the level of the water within the pitcher? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** mean, do, raise · **To what, where:** Crow, level · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is exam question 3 of lesson 397 «Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house is robbed while he reads other people's fortunes» 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/397-pg21-part18/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:397-pg21-part18:e3:1 # text = By what means did the Crow raise the level of the water within the pitcher? 1 By by SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 raise raise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 level level NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 within within ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 pitcher pitcher NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **do** | past | | the Crow | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Eventuality | | 3 | **raise** | present | | the level of the water | | | | within the pitcher | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent level=Theme | 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} by pouring water ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:397-pg21-part18:e3:o1:1 # text = by pouring water 1 by by SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 pouring pour VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 3 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pour** | gerund | | water | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} by dropping sand into it ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:397-pg21-part18:e3:o2:1 # text = by dropping sand into it 1 by by SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 dropping drop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 3 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | gerund | | sand | | sand | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sand=Theme into it=Destination | ### Option 3 {#o3} with a long reed ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:397-pg21-part18:e3:o3:1 # text = with a long reed 1 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 reed reed NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} by dropping stones into it ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:397-pg21-part18:e3:o4:1 # text = by dropping stones into it 1 by by SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 dropping drop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 3 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | gerund | | stones | | it | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme into it=Destination | **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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