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title: Fr, the witch said don't wash her with what? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Dead Witch: de… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fr, the witch said don't wash her with what? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 414 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Dead Witch: demons steal the witch's skin, and her body vanishes» 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 wa
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# Test 13 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Dead Witch: demons steal the witch…

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Fr, the witch said don't wash her with what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fr · **What happens:** say, not wash · **To what, where:** her · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 414 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Dead Witch: demons steal the witch's skin, and her body vanishes» 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/414-pg22373-part6/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:414-pg22373-part6:t13:1
# text = Fr, the witch said don't wash her with what?
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Fr and the witch |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **wash** | infinitive · do-support | Fr and the witch *not said here* | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with what=Instrument |

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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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Warm salty water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:414-pg22373-part6:t13:o1:1
# text = Warm salty water
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	salty	salty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Lukewarm water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:414-pg22373-part6:t13:o2:1
# text = Lukewarm water
1	Lukewarm	Lukewarm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Water from the stream that had been standing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:414-pg22373-part6:t13:o3:1
# text = Water from the stream that had been standing
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past · perfect · progressive | the stream |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Boiling water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:414-pg22373-part6:t13:o4:1
# text = Boiling water
1	Boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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