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title: Like, what did the witch want the horses doing in the clouds? — Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and the W… · tree and pragmatics
description: Like, what did the witch want the horses doing in the clouds? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1716 «Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and the Witch's Horses, part 40: the fish, the eagle and the fox help Iwanich get the horses back» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Test 12 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and the Witch's Horses, part…

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Like, what did the witch want the horses doing in the clouds?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** witch, horses · **What happens:** do, want · **To what, where:** horses, clouds

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1716 «Russian Fairy Tales, Iwanich and the Witch's Horses, part 40: the fish, the eagle and the fox help Iwanich get the horses back» 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/1716-pg640-part40/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1716-pg640-part40:t12:1
# text = Like, what did the witch want the horses doing in the clouds?
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | present | the witch | the horses |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot horse=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | the horses *not said here* |  |  | the clouds |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Hiding till she called

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1716-pg640-part40:t12:o1:1
# text = Hiding till she called
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	_
2	till	till	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | gerund |  |  |  |  | till she |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | Hiding |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hiding quietly until the dawn came

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1716-pg640-part40:t12:o2:1
# text = Hiding quietly until the dawn came
1	Hiding	hide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	until	until	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | gerund |  |  |  |  | dawn | quietly *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | Hiding |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Grazing in the meadow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1716-pg640-part40:t12:o3:1
# text = Grazing in the meadow
1	Grazing	graze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **graze** | gerund |  |  |  | the meadow |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Sleeping

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1716-pg640-part40:t12:o4:1
# text = Sleeping
1	Sleeping	sleeping	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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