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title: ok, which thing did she tell the staff to sharpen, mate? — Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok, which thing did she tell the staff to sharpen, mate? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1713 «Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three sons guard the magic fruit» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three son…

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ok, which thing did she tell the staff to sharpen, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** thing · **What happens:** tell, sharpen · **To what, where:** staff · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1713 «Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three sons guard the magic fruit» 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/1713-pg640-part37/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1713-pg640-part37:t3:1
# text = ok, which thing did she tell the staff to sharpen, mate?
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
4	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	sharpen	sharpen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | which thing | the staff |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent staff=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sharpen** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | mate *vocative* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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the swords

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1713-pg640-part37:t3:o1:1
# text = the swords
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the knives

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1713-pg640-part37:t3:o2:1
# text = the knives
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the axes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1713-pg640-part37:t3:o3:1
# text = the axes
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	axes	ax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the pots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1713-pg640-part37:t3:o4:1
# text = the pots
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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