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title: Blimey, why did the queen smash the egg? — Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Blimey, why did the queen smash the egg? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1291 «Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is found, then Puck starts his pranks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is fo…

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Blimey, why did the queen smash the egg?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Blimey · **What happens:** do, smash · **To what, where:** queen, egg

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1291 «Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is found, then Puck starts his pranks» 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/1291-pg3454-part16/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t9:1
# text = Blimey, why did the queen smash the egg?
1	Blimey	blimey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	smash	smash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the queen |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality |
| 2 | **smash** | present | Blimey | the egg |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme |

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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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To hurt him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t9:o1:1
# text = To hurt him
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hurt** | to-infinitive |  | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To break the giant's spell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t9:o2:1
# text = To break the giant's spell
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	break	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | to-infinitive |  | the giant's spell |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient |
| 2 | **spell** |  | the giant |  |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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For fun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t9:o3:1
# text = For fun
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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To kill the giant's soul

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t9:o4:1
# text = To kill the giant's soul
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	kill	kill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | to-infinitive |  | the giant's soul |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |

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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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