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title: Dead bored, what did the witch's daughter fetch? — Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead bored, what did the witch's daughter fetch? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1658 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47: Esben steals the witch's lamp and is sent for a coverlet» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 13 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47…

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Dead bored, what did the witch's daughter fetch?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** daughter fetch

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1658 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47: Esben steals the witch's lamp and is sent for a coverlet» 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/1658-pg5615-part47/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1658-pg5615-part47:t13:1
# text = Dead bored, what did the witch's daughter fetch?
1	Dead	dead	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	bored	bored	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	fetch	fetch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the witch's daughter fetch |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fetch=Eventuality |

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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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wood for the fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1658-pg5615-part47:t13:o1:1
# text = wood for the fire
1	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
water from the well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1658-pg5615-part47:t13:o2:1
# text = water from the well
1	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
water from the well for her mother's porridge pot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1658-pg5615-part47:t13:o3:1
# text = water from the well for her mother's porridge pot
1	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	porridge	porridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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fresh water from the deep well behind the dark stable

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1658-pg5615-part47:t13:o4:1
# text = fresh water from the deep well behind the dark stable
1	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	deep	deep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
7	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stable	stable	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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**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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