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title: Wait, how many diamonds was she rocking on her shoes? — d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, how many diamonds was she rocking on her shoes? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1423 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wedding is spoiled and Bellissima is stolen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 3 · ★ · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wed…

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Wait, how many diamonds was she rocking on her shoes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, many diamonds · **What happens:** wait, rock · **To what, where:** shoes

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1423 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 10: the wedding is spoiled and Bellissima is stolen» 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/1423-pg503-part10/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t3:1
# text = Wait, how many diamonds was she rocking on her shoes?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	rocking	rock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	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 | **rock** | past · progressive | many diamonds |  |  | her shoes |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoe=Location |

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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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Loads, all over them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t3:o1:1
# text = Loads, all over them
1	Loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Like a whole load of them, all over them, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t3:o2:1
# text = Like a whole load of them, all over them, mate
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Heaps, on the toes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t3:o3:1
# text = Heaps, on the toes
1	Heaps	heap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hundreds, all down them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1423-pg503-part10:t3:o4:1
# text = Hundreds, all down them
1	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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

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