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title: bruh why'd the queen even go see a witch? — Fairy Tales pg23661, The Island of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: bruh why'd the queen even go see a witch? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 647 «Fairy Tales pg23661, The Island of the Nine Whirlpools, part 1: a Queen buys a baby from a witch, and the King is furious» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales pg23661, The Island of the Nine Whirlpools, pa…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bruh why'd the queen even go see a witch?

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

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 647 «Fairy Tales pg23661, The Island of the Nine Whirlpools, part 1: a Queen buys a baby from a witch, and the King is furious» 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/647-pg23661-part15/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:647-pg23661-part15:t1:1
# text = bruh why'd the queen even go see a witch?
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | the queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | the queen | a witch |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer witch=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the king wanted a kid and she was like sure, why not, no cap at all

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:647-pg23661-part15:t1:o1:1
# text = the king wanted a kid and she was like sure, why not, no cap at all
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	parataxis	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the king | a kid |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kid=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | kid |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
coz the king really wanted an heir

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:647-pg23661-part15:t1:o2:1
# text = coz the king really wanted an heir
1	coz	coz	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	heir	heir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **coz** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | past | the king | a heir |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot heir=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
bc the king wanted a baby lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:647-pg23661-part15:t1:o3:1
# text = bc the king wanted a baby lol
1	bc	BC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the bc king | a baby |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot baby=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cause the king wanted a kid, no cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:647-pg23661-part15:t1:o4:1
# text = cause the king wanted a kid, no cap
1	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **want** | past | the cause king | a kid |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kid=Theme |

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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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