--- title: Was the queen's posy just flowers, innit? — Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, par… · tree and pragmatics description: Was the queen's posy just flowers, innit? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1170 «Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo dies, the wife poisons herself, and a queen is promised a daughter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1170-pg3027-part36/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, par…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1170-pg3027-part36/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo di… Was the queen's posy just flowers, innit? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** posy flowers · **What happens:** be, innit · **To what, where:** posy This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1170 «Crimson Fairy Book, The White Doe, part 36: the buffalo dies, the wife poisons herself, and a queen is promised a daughter» 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/1170-pg3027-part36/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1170-pg3027-part36:t8:1 # text = Was the queen's posy just flowers, innit? 1 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 posy posy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 just just ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 innit innit VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the queen's posy | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **innit** | infinitive | posy flowers | | | | | | tree rules | 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} Yeah, just flowers ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1170-pg3027-part36:t8:o1:1 # text = Yeah, just flowers 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 just just ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Yeah, a bunch of dried bread crusts ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1170-pg3027-part36:t8:o2:1 # text = Yeah, a bunch of dried bread crusts 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bunch bunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 7 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 crusts crust NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dry** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 3 {#o3} Nah, a bunch of silver coins ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1170-pg3027-part36:t8:o3:1 # text = Nah, a bunch of silver coins 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 bunch bunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 coins coin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Yeah, a little bunch of jewel flowers ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1170-pg3027-part36:t8:o4:1 # text = Yeah, a little bunch of jewel flowers 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 bunch bunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 jewel jewel NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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