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title: Ain't no way, what does a witch look like on the road? — Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ain't no way, what does a witch look like on the road? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 586 «Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of witch-stirrups and a witch who loses his skin» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 3 · ★ · Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of…

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Ain't no way, what does a witch look like on the road?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** witch · **What happens:** look · **To what, where:** way

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 586 «Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of witch-stirrups and a witch who loses his skin» 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/586-pg2306-part22/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:586-pg2306-part22:t3:1
# text = Ain't no way, what does a witch look like on the road?
1	Ai	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present · do-support | a witch | no way |  |  |  | like the road | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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big black cat with yellow eyeballs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:586-pg2306-part22:t3:o1:1
# text = big black cat with yellow eyeballs
1	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	eyeballs	eyeball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a big black cat with yellow eyeballs that walks upright along the ditch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:586-pg2306-part22:t3:o2:1
# text = a big black cat with yellow eyeballs that walks upright along the ditch
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	eyeballs	eyeball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	upright	upright	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	along	along	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | present | a big black cat with yellow eyeballs |  |  | the ditch |  | upright *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along ditch=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a big gray owl with bright eyes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:586-pg2306-part22:t3:o3:1
# text = a big gray owl with bright eyes
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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a black dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:586-pg2306-part22:t3:o4:1
# text = a black dog
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dog	dog	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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