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title: ngl, how did the witch get over that lake? — Danish Tales, The Witch and the White… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, how did the witch get over that lake? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1654 «Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince wins back the princess, and the couple escapes the witch» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 8 · ★ · Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince win…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ngl, how did the witch get over that lake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ngl · **What happens:** do, get · **To what, where:** witch, lake

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1654 «Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince wins back the princess, and the couple escapes the witch» 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/1654-pg5615-part43/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1654-pg5615-part43:t8:1
# text = ngl, how did the witch get over that lake?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the witch |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Eventuality |
| 2 | **get** | present | ngl |  |  | that lake |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over lake=Destination |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
on foot around it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1654-pg5615-part43:t8:o1:1
# text = on foot around it
1	on	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	around	around	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
by swimming it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1654-pg5615-part43:t8:o2:1
# text = by swimming it
1	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | gerund |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
with her dough-trough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1654-pg5615-part43:t8:o3:1
# text = with her dough-trough
1	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	dough	dough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	trough	trough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
in a small wooden boat she built

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1654-pg5615-part43:t8:o4:1
# text = in a small wooden boat she built
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | she | a small wooden boat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=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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