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title: whats the punishment if the wisp fails, dude? — Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp… · tree and pragmatics
description: whats the punishment if the wisp fails, dude? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1026 «Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 237: the Moor-woman shows the man her cupboard of poetry and tells him about the new Will-o'-the-Wisps born in the marsh» of the books course of Mova's primary school, wi
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 2…

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whats the punishment if the wisp fails, dude?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wisp · **What happens:** fail · **To what, where:** punishment

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1026 «Andersen's Tales, The Will-o'-the-Wisp in the Town, part 237: the Moor-woman shows the man her cupboard of poetry and tells him about the new Will-o'-the-Wisps born in the marsh» 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/1026-pg27200-part237/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1026-pg27200-part237:t4:1
# text = whats the punishment if the wisp fails, dude?
1	whats	what	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wisp	wisp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fails	fail	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | present | the wisp | the punishment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Eventuality |

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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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Drowned

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1026-pg27200-part237:t4:o1:1
# text = Drowned
1	Drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sent to the bottom of the bog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1026-pg27200-part237:t4:o2:1
# text = Sent to the bottom of the bog
1	Sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bog	bog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | participle |  |  |  | the bottom of the bog |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to bottom=Destination |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Trapped in the swamp for good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1026-pg27200-part237:t4:o3:1
# text = Trapped in the swamp for good
1	Trapped	trap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	swamp	swamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trap** | participle |  |  |  | the swamp |  | for good | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in swamp=Destination |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Stuck in rotten wood, can't move

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1026-pg27200-part237:t4:o4:1
# text = Stuck in rotten wood, can't move
1	Stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	rotten	rotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **move** | can | rotten wood *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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