--- title: so the witch just gave up, yeah? — Household Tales, The Twins and the Wit… · tree and pragmatics description: so the witch just gave up, yeah? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1727 «Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children flee, and the witch's magic fails» 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1727-pg640-part51/t6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Household Tales, The Twins and the Wit…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1727-pg640-part51/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children fle… so the witch just gave up, yeah? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** witch · **What happens:** give up This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1727 «Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children flee, and the witch's magic fails» 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/1727-pg640-part51/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:t6:1 # text = so the witch just gave up, yeah? 1 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 8 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give up** | past | the witch | | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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} walked off slowly ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:t6:o1:1 # text = walked off slowly 1 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 off off ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 3 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk off** | past | | | | | | slowly *property* | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} sat down to rest ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:t6:o2:1 # text = sat down to rest 1 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 down down ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit down** | past | | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **rest** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} went home ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:t6:o3:1 # text = went home 1 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 home home ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} went back to her hut ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1727-pg640-part51:t6:o4:1 # text = went back to her hut 1 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go back** | past | | | | | | to her hut *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to hut=Result | **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. 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