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title: test: Wait, what did the witch want them to do? — Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: Wait, what did the witch want them to do? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1726 «Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and twins flee a witch's hut» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and…

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test: Wait, what did the witch want them to do?

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

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1726 «Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and twins flee a witch's hut» 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/1726-pg640-part50/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1726-pg640-part50:t6:1
# text = test: Wait, what did the witch want them to do?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
3	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **want** | past · do-support | the witch | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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carry water and sew

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1726-pg640-part50:t6:o1:1
# text = carry water and sew
1	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	sew	sew	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | imperative | you *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 2 | **sew** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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spin yarn, carry water and cook the dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1726-pg640-part50:t6:o2:1
# text = spin yarn, carry water and cook the dinner
1	spin	spin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	yarn	yarn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | infinitive | spin yarn | water |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 2 | **cook** | infinitive | spin yarn *not said here* | the dinner |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |

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

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spin yarn and carry water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1726-pg640-part50:t6:o3:1
# text = spin yarn and carry water
1	spin	spin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	yarn	yarn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | infinitive | spin yarn | water |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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sweep the hut and feed hens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1726-pg640-part50:t6:o4:1
# text = sweep the hut and feed hens
1	sweep	sweep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | imperative | you *not said here* | the hut |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hut=Trajectory |
| 2 | **feed** | present | you *not said here* |  | hens |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Recipient |

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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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