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title: Like, why'd the witch build a house made of bread, though? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel… · tree and pragmatics
description: Like, why'd the witch build a house made of bread, though? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 744 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt and the children go home rich» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt…

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Like, why'd the witch build a house made of bread, though?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** witch · **What happens:** build, make · **To what, where:** house

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 744 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt and the children go home rich» 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/744-pg2591-part20/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:744-pg2591-part20:t5:1
# text = Like, why'd the witch build a house made of bread, though?
1	Like	like	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | infinitive | the witch | a house |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a house *not said here* |  |  |  | of bread | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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To lure in children so she could fatten them up for supper

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:744-pg2591-part20:t5:o1:1
# text = To lure in children so she could fatten them up for supper
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	lure	lure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	fatten	fatten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lure** | to-infinitive | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in children | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fatten up** | could | she | children *= child* |  |  |  | for supper | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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

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To lure children inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:744-pg2591-part20:t5:o2:1
# text = To lure children inside
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	lure	lure	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lure** | to-infinitive |  | children |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To get the kids inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:744-pg2591-part20:t5:o3:1
# text = To get the kids inside
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kids	kid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | the kids |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cos she wanted to bake the whole village into cakes and bread

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:744-pg2591-part20:t5:o4:1
# text = Cos she wanted to bake the whole village into cakes and bread
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **bake** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | she *not said here* | the whole village |  | cakes and bread |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent village=Material into cake=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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