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title: so what did the witch want for herself? — Fairy Tales pg23661, The Island of the… · tree and pragmatics
description: so what did the witch want for herself? Test 4 · ★ 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 ea
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# Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales pg23661, The Island of the Nine Whirlpools, pa…

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so what did the witch want for herself?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** witch · **What happens:** do, want

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:647-pg23661-part15:t4:1
# text = so what did the witch want for herself?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | present | the witch |  |  |  |  | for witch | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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 fancy crown for her head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:647-pg23661-part15:t4:o1:1
# text = a fancy crown for her head
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
more gold, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:647-pg23661-part15:t4:o2:1
# text = more gold, lol
1	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
someone to love her, that's it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:647-pg23661-part15:t4:o3:1
# text = someone to love her, that's it
1	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	acl	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | to-infinitive |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a daughter to be her friend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:647-pg23661-part15:t4:o4:1
# text = a daughter to be her friend
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | her friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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