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title: what did the queen do while he was asleep, fr? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the queen do while he was asleep, fr? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1289 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light, part 14: the king loses the last game and rides off to steal the sword» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light, part 14: the king…

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what did the queen do while he was asleep, fr?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** queen, he · **What happens:** do, be

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1289 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light, part 14: the king loses the last game and rides off to steal the sword» 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/1289-pg3454-part14/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1289-pg3454-part14:t8:1
# text = what did the queen do while he was asleep, fr?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | the queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | 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 {#o1}

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rode off all alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1289-pg3454-part14:t8:o1:1
# text = rode off all alone
1	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride off** | past |  |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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sang songs on her harp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1289-pg3454-part14:t8:o2:1
# text = sang songs on her harp
1	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past |  | songs |  | her harp |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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baked a whole cake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1289-pg3454-part14:t8:o3:1
# text = baked a whole cake
1	baked	bake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bake** | past |  | a whole cake |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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fixed the roof

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1289-pg3454-part14:t8:o4:1
# text = fixed the roof
1	fixed	fix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | past |  | the roof |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent roof=Patient |

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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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