--- title: Who even told the new queen about the boy, like? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olw… · tree and pragmatics description: Who even told the new queen about the boy, like? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1337 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olwen, part 1: a queen's grave, a forgetful king, and a prophecy about Olwen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1337-pg3454-part62/t5/) [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/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olw…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1337-pg3454-part62/) / t5 # Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olwen, part 1: a queen'… Who even told the new queen about the boy, like? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** tell · **To what, where:** new queen · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1337 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winning of Olwen, part 1: a queen's grave, a forgetful king, and a prophecy about Olwen» 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/1337-pg3454-part62/#t5). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1337-pg3454-part62:t5:1 # text = Who even told the new queen about the boy, like? 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 2 even even ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | | | the new queen | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient about boy=Topic | 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} Her old nurse from home ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1337-pg3454-part62:t5:o1:1 # text = Her old nurse from home 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 nurse nurse NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Some old woman she was visiting ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1337-pg3454-part62:t5:o2:1 # text = Some old woman she was visiting 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 visiting visit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **visit** | past · progressive | some old woman | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Some old lady at the market ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1337-pg3454-part62:t5:o3:1 # text = Some old lady at the market 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 market market NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Her servant ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1337-pg3454-part62:t5:o4:1 # text = Her servant 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` 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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