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title: Wicked, what's the old word for a servant girl who watched her? — Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wicked, what's the old word for a servant girl who watched her? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 13 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, th…

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Wicked, what's the old word for a servant girl who watched her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** servant girl · **What happens:** be, watch · **To what, where:** Wicked old word, girl

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» 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/1547-pg540-part44/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:t13:1
# text = Wicked, what's the old word for a servant girl who watched her?
1	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Wicked old word |  |  |  | for a servant girl | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | past | a servant girl | girl |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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stepdaughter's watchful attendant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:t13:o1:1
# text = stepdaughter's watchful attendant
1	stepdaughter	stepdaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	watchful	watchful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	attendant	attendant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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chambermaid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:t13:o2:1
# text = chambermaid
1	chambermaid	chambermaid	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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governess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:t13:o3:1
# text = governess
1	governess	governess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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handmaiden

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1547-pg540-part44:t13:o4:1
# text = handmaiden
1	handmaiden	handmaiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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