--- title: The Witch nicked the Queen's gear, didn't she? What did she nick? — Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone B… · tree and pragmatics description: The Witch nicked the Queen's gear, didn't she? What did she nick? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1739 «Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone Boat, part 63: a Witch swaps places with the Queen and steals her away on a stone boat» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1739-pg640-part63/t5/) [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/) / [Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone B…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1739-pg640-part63/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone Boat, part 63: a Witc… The Witch nicked the Queen's gear, didn't she? What did she nick? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Witch · **What happens:** nick, not do · **To what, where:** gear This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1739 «Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone Boat, part 63: a Witch swaps places with the Queen and steals her away on a stone boat» 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/1739-pg640-part63/#t5). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* The Witch nicked the Queen's gear, didn't she? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1739-pg640-part63:t5:1 # text = The Witch nicked the Queen's gear, didn't she? 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 nicked nick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 gear gear NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 10 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nick** | past | the Witch | the Queen's gear | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gear=Patient | | 2 | **not** **do** | past | Witch | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «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. *Sentence 2:* What did she nick? ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1739-pg640-part63:t5:2 # text = What did she nick? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 nick nick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nick** | past · do-support | Witch | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} her fine clothes ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1739-pg640-part63:t5:o1:1 # text = her fine clothes 1 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} her fine clothes and her jewels of gold ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1739-pg640-part63:t5:o2:1 # text = her fine clothes and her jewels of gold 1 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 jewels jewel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} her crown ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1739-pg640-part63:t5:o3:1 # text = her crown 1 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crown** | | her *= she* | | | | | | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} her golden necklace ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1739-pg640-part63:t5:o4:1 # text = her golden necklace 1 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 necklace necklace NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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