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title: Which object did the beetle use in order to cross the ditch? — Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beet… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object did the beetle use in order to cross the ditch? Exam question 1 of lesson 799 «Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beetle marries, leaves his wife, and is rescued from the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beetle marries, leaves h…

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Which object did the beetle use in order to cross the ditch?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** do, cross · **To what, where:** beetle use, ditch

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 799 «Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beetle marries, leaves his wife, and is rescued from the sea» 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/799-pg27200-part10/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:799-pg27200-part10:e1:1
# text = Which object did the beetle use in order to cross the ditch?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	beetle	beetle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	10	mark	_	_
8	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	fixed	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	cross	cross	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which object | the beetle use |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cross** | to-infinitive | which object *not said here* | the ditch |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ditch=Patient |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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a piece of bark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:799-pg27200-part10:e1:o1:1
# text = a piece of bark
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a wet bit of wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:799-pg27200-part10:e1:o2:1
# text = a wet bit of wood
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a twig

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:799-pg27200-part10:e1:o3:1
# text = a twig
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	twig	twig	NOUN	NN	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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a cabbage leaf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:799-pg27200-part10:e1:o4:1
# text = a cabbage leaf
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	leaf	leaf	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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