--- title: Was the Queen's mule rocking gold shoes or what? — Lang Fairy Book, Rosette, part 21: the… · tree and pragmatics description: Was the Queen's mule rocking gold shoes or what? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1524 «Lang Fairy Book, Rosette, part 21: the fairies foretell danger for Rosette» 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1524-pg540-part21/t7/) [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/) / [Lang Fairy Book, Rosette, part 21: the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1524-pg540-part21/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Lang Fairy Book, Rosette, part 21: the fairies foretell da… Was the Queen's mule rocking gold shoes or what? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mule · **What happens:** be, rock · **To what, where:** mule, gold shoes This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1524 «Lang Fairy Book, Rosette, part 21: the fairies foretell danger for Rosette» 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/1524-pg540-part21/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1524-pg540-part21:t7:1 # text = Was the Queen's mule rocking gold shoes or what? 1 Was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 mule mule NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 rocking rock VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the Queen's mule | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **rock** | gerund | the Queen's mule *not said here* | gold shoes | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shoe=Theme | 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} Nah, plain, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1524-pg540-part21:t7:o1:1 # text = Nah, plain, mate 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Nah, gold plated, not mint ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1524-pg540-part21:t7:o2:1 # text = Nah, gold plated, not mint 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 plated plate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 mint mint NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **plate** | participle | | mint | | | | | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Yeah, solid gold, mint ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1524-pg540-part21:t7:o3:1 # text = Yeah, solid gold, mint 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 mint mint NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Yeah, solid silver, mint ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1524-pg540-part21:t7:o4:1 # text = Yeah, solid silver, mint 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 mint mint NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ ``` 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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