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title: What did the Thief place beneath the sleeping witches' heads? — Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the Thief place beneath the sleeping witches' heads? Exam question 2 of lesson 1517 «Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen, part 14: the thieves are caught, and the Black Thief tells two tales to save his neck» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depen
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# Exam question 2 · Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen,…

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What did the Thief place beneath the sleeping witches' heads?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Thief place

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1517 «Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen, part 14: the thieves are caught, and the Black Thief tells two tales to save his neck» 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/1517-pg540-part14/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1517-pg540-part14:e2:1
# text = What did the Thief place beneath the sleeping witches' heads?
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	5	det	_	_
4	Thief	Thief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the Thief place |  |  |  | beneath the sleeping witches's heads | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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pieces of turf

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1517-pg540-part14:e2:o1:1
# text = pieces of turf
1	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	turf	turf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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moss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1517-pg540-part14:e2:o2:1
# text = moss
1	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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stones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1517-pg540-part14:e2:o3:1
# text = stones
1	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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scraps of cloth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1517-pg540-part14:e2:o4:1
# text = scraps of cloth
1	scraps	scrap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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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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