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title: Proper wicked, but what did the old man want them to fetch? — Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper wicked, but what did the old man want them to fetch? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1644 «Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brothers climb the mountain and turn to stone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 4 · ★ · Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brother…

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Proper wicked, but what did the old man want them to fetch?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** old man, them · **What happens:** want, fetch · **To what, where:** them

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1644 «Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brothers climb the mountain and turn to stone» 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/1644-pg5615-part33/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:t4:1
# text = Proper wicked, but what did the old man want them to fetch?
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past · do-support | the old man | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fetch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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 silver feather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:t4:o1:1
# text = the silver feather
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	feather	feather	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the water of life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:t4:o2:1
# text = the water of life
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the magic sword that could cut through the giant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:t4:o3:1
# text = the magic sword that could cut through the giant
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | could | the magic sword |  |  |  |  | through the giant | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through giant=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a bottle of wine from the far mountain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:t4:o4:1
# text = a bottle of wine from the far mountain
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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