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title: Why does the witch need to sharpen her teeth? Mega weird — Russian Folk-Tales, The Baba Yaga, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does the witch need to sharpen her teeth? Mega weird Test 9 · ★ of lesson 440 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Baba Yaga, the girl escapes with a towel and a comb» 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 9 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Baba Yaga, the girl escapes with a…

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Why does the witch need to sharpen her teeth? Mega weird

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** need, sharpen · **To what, where:** teeth

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 440 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Baba Yaga, the girl escapes with a towel and a comb» 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/440-pg22373-part32/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Why does the witch need to sharpen her teeth?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:440-pg22373-part32:t9:1
# text = Why does the witch need to sharpen her teeth?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sharpen	sharpen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **sharpen** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | her teeth |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Mega weird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:440-pg22373-part32:t9:2
# text = Mega weird
1	Mega	Mega	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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So she can eat the girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:440-pg22373-part32:t9:o1:1
# text = So she can eat the girl
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | can | she | the girl |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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So she can cook the girl up in a big iron pot tonight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:440-pg22373-part32:t9:o2:1
# text = So she can cook the girl up in a big iron pot tonight
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	tonight	tonight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cook up** | can | she | the girl |  | a big iron pot | tonight |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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So she can catch the girl and eat her whole for dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:440-pg22373-part32:t9:o3:1
# text = So she can catch the girl and eat her whole for dinner
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | can | she | the girl |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | infinitive | she *not said here* | girl's whole |  |  |  | for dinner | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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So she can bake a pie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:440-pg22373-part32:t9:o4:1
# text = So she can bake a pie
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pie	pie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | can | she | a pie |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pie=Product |

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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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