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title: Eh, what did the queen wash on the threshold? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh, what did the queen wash on the threshold? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 11 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re…

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Eh, what did the queen wash on the threshold?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Eh · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** queen wash, threshold

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» 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/1290-pg3454-part15/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t11:1
# text = Eh, what did the queen wash on the threshold?
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	wash	wash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Eh | the queen wash |  | the threshold |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wash=Eventuality |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the stones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t11:o1:1
# text = the stones
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the step

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t11:o2:1
# text = the step
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t11:o3:1
# text = the floor
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	floor	floor	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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stones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:t11:o4:1
# text = stones
1	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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