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title: Did the wolves really eat the Queen, bruv? — Perrault, Sleeping Beauty, part 15: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the wolves really eat the Queen, bruv? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1428 «Perrault, Sleeping Beauty, part 15: the Ogress Queen orders a tub of serpents for the family» 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
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# Test 11 · ★ · Perrault, Sleeping Beauty, part 15: the Ogress Queen order…

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Did the wolves really eat the Queen, bruv?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wolves · **What happens:** eat · **To what, where:** Queen

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1428 «Perrault, Sleeping Beauty, part 15: the Ogress Queen orders a tub of serpents for the family» 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/1428-pg503-part15/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1428-pg503-part15:t11:1
# text = Did the wolves really eat the Queen, bruv?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · do-support | the wolves | the Queen |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, true

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1428-pg503-part15:t11:o1:1
# text = Yeah, true
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, lie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1428-pg503-part15:t11:o2:1
# text = Nah, lie
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, that was a lie, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1428-pg503-part15:t11:o3:1
# text = Nah, that was a lie, bruv
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | that | a lie and bruv |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, that was true, bruv

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1428-pg503-part15:t11:o4:1
# text = Yeah, that was true, bruv
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | bruv *vocative*; true *property* | tree rules |

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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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