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title: Which tale is the Nettle Spinner one, the wicked lord or the Witch? — Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which tale is the Nettle Spinner one, the wicked lord or the Witch? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 1568 «Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard orders Renelde to spin nettles into two shifts, and then falls ill» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Test 14 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard ord…

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Which tale is the Nettle Spinner one, the wicked lord or the Witch?

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

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This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1568 «Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard orders Renelde to spin nettles into two shifts, and then falls ill» 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/1568-pg540-part65/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t14:1
# text = Which tale is the Nettle Spinner one, the wicked lord or the Witch?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Nettle	Nettle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Spinner	Spinner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | which tale | the Nettle Spinner and the wicked lord or the Witch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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the Witch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t14:o1:1
# text = the Witch
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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the Prince

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t14:o2:1
# text = the Prince
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the wicked lord

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t14:o3:1
# text = the wicked lord
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the cruel Count

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1568-pg540-part65:t14:o4:1
# text = the cruel Count
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Count	count	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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