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title: why was the Witch's blood not bleeding, like, what's up with that? — Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 16: Dorot… · tree and pragmatics
description: why was the Witch's blood not bleeding, like, what's up with that? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1601 «Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 16: Dorothy becomes the Witch's slave» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice w
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# Test 13 · ★ · Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 16: Dorothy becomes the Witch…

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why was the Witch's blood not bleeding, like, what's up with that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** blood · **What happens:** be, not bleed · **To what, where:** blood

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1601 «Oz, The Winged Monkeys, part 16: Dorothy becomes the Witch's slave» 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/1601-pg55-part16/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1601-pg55-part16:t13:1
# text = why was the Witch's blood not bleeding, like, what's up with that?
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Witch	Witch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the Witch's blood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **bleed** | gerund | the Witch's blood |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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cause it dried up years back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1601-pg55-part16:t13:o1:1
# text = cause it dried up years back
1	cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  | year |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition it=Patient |
| 2 | **dry up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
she had no blood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1601-pg55-part16:t13:o2:1
# text = she had no blood
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | she | no blood |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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cause it dried out long ago

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1601-pg55-part16:t13:o3:1
# text = cause it dried out long ago
1	cause	cause	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dry out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cause she's made of wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1601-pg55-part16:t13:o4:1
# text = cause she's made of wood
1	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | she |  |  |  | of wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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