--- title: Whit did the Thief pit under the witches' heids? — Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Whit did the Thief pit under the witches' heids? Test 5 · ★ 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 dependency tree and pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1517-pg540-part14/t5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1517-pg540-part14/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen,… Whit did the Thief pit under the witches' heids? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Whit · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Thief pit, heids This is test 5 · ★ 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. 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/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1517-pg540-part14:t5:1 # text = Whit did the Thief pit under the witches' heids? 1 Whit whit NOUN NN Number=Sing 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 pit pit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 under under ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 witches witch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ' 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 heids heid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Whit | the Thief pit | | the witches's heids | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pit=Eventuality | 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} Bits o cloth fae the bag ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1517-pg540-part14:t5:o1:1 # text = Bits o cloth fae the bag 1 Bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 o of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 3 case _ _ 3 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 fae fae VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fae** | present | Bits of cloth | the bag | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Pieces o turf ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1517-pg540-part14:t5:o2:1 # text = Pieces o turf 1 Pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 o of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 3 case _ _ 3 turf turf NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Dry leaves an' bark ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1517-pg540-part14:t5:o3:1 # text = Dry leaves an' bark 1 Dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | present | | a bark | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Stanes ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1517-pg540-part14:t5:o4:1 # text = Stanes 1 Stanes Stanes PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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