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title: Proper random, but what did the old witch whack the mare with? — Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper random, but what did the old witch whack the mare with? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1761 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is taken prisoner and his queen sets out disguised as a boy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 3 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is take…

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Proper random, but what did the old witch whack the mare with?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old witch · **What happens:** whack · **To what, where:** mare

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1761 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is taken prisoner and his queen sets out disguised as a boy» 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/1761-pg641-part12/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t3:1
# text = Proper random, but what did the old witch whack the mare with?
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	random	random	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	whack	whack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whack** | past · do-support | the old witch | the mare |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent what=Patient mare=Result |

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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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a long wooden broom handle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t3:o1:1
# text = a long wooden broom handle
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a broom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t3:o2:1
# text = a broom
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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a stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t3:o3:1
# text = a stick
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a heavy iron pot lid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t3:o4:1
# text = a heavy iron pot lid
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	lid	lid	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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**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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