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title: so what kinda critter finished off the wizard? — Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what kinda critter finished off the wizard? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1650 «Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a horse and a pole-cat ends a wizard» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a ho…

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so what kinda critter finished off the wizard?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** finish off · **To what, where:** wizard

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1650 «Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a horse and a pole-cat ends a wizard» 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/1650-pg5615-part39/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t9:1
# text = so what kinda critter finished off the wizard?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	critter	critter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	finished	finish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish off** | participle · passive |  | the wizard |  |  |  | kinda *property* | 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 {#o1}

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a badger, bite bite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t9:o1:1
# text = a badger, bite bite
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	badger	badger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t9:o2:1
# text = a fox
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a pole-cat, snap snap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t9:o3:1
# text = a pole-cat, snap snap
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	pole	pole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	snap	snap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	snap	snap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a rat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t9:o4:1
# text = a rat
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rat	rat	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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