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title: Wha, the frog bowed low and talked nice. Wat did she call the queen? — Fairy Book, The Lion Fairy, part 45: t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wha, the frog bowed low and talked nice. Wat did she call the queen? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1179 «Fairy Book, The Lion Fairy, part 45: the queen is taken to a gloomy palace, and frogs help her make a bee-sting pasty and build a cabin» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency 
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# Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Lion Fairy, part 45: the queen is taken to…

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Wha, the frog bowed low and talked nice. Wat did she call the queen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Wha, Wat · **What happens:** bow, call · **To what, where:** queen · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1179 «Fairy Book, The Lion Fairy, part 45: the queen is taken to a gloomy palace, and frogs help her make a bee-sting pasty and build a cabin» 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/1179-pg3027-part45/#t13).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Wha, the frog bowed low and talked nice.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1179-pg3027-part45:t13:1
# text = Wha, the frog bowed low and talked nice.
1	Wha	Wha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	talked	talked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bow** | past | Wha |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Wat did she call the queen?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1179-pg3027-part45:t13:2
# text = Wat did she call the queen?
1	Wat	wat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · do-support | Wat |  | the queen |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Dear mistress

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1179-pg3027-part45:t13:o1:1
# text = Dear mistress
1	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Queen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1179-pg3027-part45:t13:o2:1
# text = Queen
1	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Beautiful lady

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1179-pg3027-part45:t13:o3:1
# text = Beautiful lady
1	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Noble sister

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1179-pg3027-part45:t13:o4:1
# text = Noble sister
1	Noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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