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title: Wait, what was the lace thing the Queen woke up wearing? — Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what was the lace thing the Queen woke up wearing? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1422 «Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Bellissima, and she agrees to marry the Gold King» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Be…

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Wait, what was the lace thing the Queen woke up wearing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Queen · **What happens:** wait, be, wake up, wear · **To what, where:** lace thing

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1422 «Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Bellissima, and she agrees to marry the Gold King» 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/1422-pg503-part9/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:t6:1
# text = Wait, what was the lace thing the Queen woke up wearing?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the lace thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wake up** | past | the Queen | the lace thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 4 | **wear** | gerund | the Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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a lace nightcap with ribbons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:t6:o1:1
# text = a lace nightcap with ribbons
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nightcap	nightcap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a lace nightcap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:t6:o2:1
# text = a lace nightcap
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	nightcap	nightcap	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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a fine lace nightcap trimmed with pearls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:t6:o3:1
# text = a fine lace nightcap trimmed with pearls
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	nightcap	nightcap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	trimmed	trim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trim** | participle |  | a fine lace nightcap *not said here* |  |  |  | with pearls | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a velvet crown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1422-pg503-part9:t6:o4:1
# text = a velvet crown
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	crown	crown	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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