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title: Why's the witch wanting water from Big Women? — Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Soldier's… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why's the witch wanting water from Big Women? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1142 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 8: Ian frees the knight's daughter, kills the giant, and is left behind on the island» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 8: Ian fre…

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Why's the witch wanting water from Big Women?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** witch · **What happens:** be, want · **To what, where:** water

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1142 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 8: Ian frees the knight's daughter, kills the giant, and is left behind on the island» 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/1142-pg3027-part8/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1142-pg3027-part8:t8:1
# text = Why's the witch wanting water from Big Women?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the witch |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | gerund | the witch *not said here* | water |  |  |  | from Big Women | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme |

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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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For a bath, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1142-pg3027-part8:t8:o1:1
# text = For a bath, innit
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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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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To cook the stew, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1142-pg3027-part8:t8:o2:1
# text = To cook the stew, mate
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	cook	cook	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stew	stew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook** | to-infinitive |  | the stew and mate |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stew=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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To sort out the spell on them, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1142-pg3027-part8:t8:o3:1
# text = To sort out the spell on them, innit
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sort	sort	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	innit	innit	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sort out** | to-infinitive |  | the spell |  |  |  | on them *= they* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To wash the boys, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1142-pg3027-part8:t8:o4:1
# text = To wash the boys, innit
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	wash	wash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | to-infinitive |  | the boys |  |  |  | innit *obl* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |

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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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