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title: So did Fanny want to be a Queen, or nah? — Fairy Tales, Donkeyskin, part 1: a dyi… · tree and pragmatics
description: So did Fanny want to be a Queen, or nah? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1091 «Fairy Tales, Donkeyskin, part 1: a dying Queen makes the King swear, the King goes mad, and the Princess flees to her godmother» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Donkeyskin, part 1: a dying Queen makes the K…

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So did Fanny want to be a Queen, or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fanny · **What happens:** want, be · **To what, where:** Queen

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1091 «Fairy Tales, Donkeyskin, part 1: a dying Queen makes the King swear, the King goes mad, and the Princess flees to her godmother» 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/1091-pg29021-part16/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1091-pg29021-part16:t3:1
# text = So did Fanny want to be a Queen, or nah?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Fanny	Fanny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past · do-support | Fanny |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **is a** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Fanny *not said here* | a Queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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yes, she wanted a crown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1091-pg29021-part16:t3:o1:1
# text = yes, she wanted a crown
1	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	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	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
she chose to be a Queen and ruled for years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1091-pg29021-part16:t3:o2:1
# text = she chose to be a Queen and ruled for years
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a Queen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rule** | past | she *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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she chose to stay a peasant wife

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1091-pg29021-part16:t3:o3:1
# text = she chose to stay a peasant wife
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	peasant	peasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stay** | to-infinitive | she *not said here* | a peasant wife |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme wife=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
she chose to be fair, not a Queen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1091-pg29021-part16:t3:o4:1
# text = she chose to be fair, not a Queen
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | she *not said here* |  |  |  |  | a Queen *obl*; fair *property* | 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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