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title: what did the witch want with Pinkel, real talk? — West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief,… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the witch want with Pinkel, real talk? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1160 «West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is crowned by a lion; Pinkel escapes a witch» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 10 · ★ · West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is cr…

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what did the witch want with Pinkel, real talk?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** witch · **What happens:** do, want · **To what, where:** witch

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1160 «West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is crowned by a lion; Pinkel escapes a witch» 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/1160-pg3027-part26/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t10:1
# text = what did the witch want with Pinkel, real talk?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Pinkel	Pinkel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the witch |  |  |  | with Pinkel | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Eventuality |
| 2 | **want** | present | the witch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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wanted him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t10:o1:1
# text = wanted him
1	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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wanted him as a cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t10:o2:1
# text = wanted him as a cook
1	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past |  | him *= he* |  |  |  | as a cook | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as cook=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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to work

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t10:o3:1
# text = to work
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	work	work	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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wanted him to work

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1160-pg3027-part26:t10:o4:1
# text = wanted him to work
1	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | him *= he* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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