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title: what do u call the ladies who serve the Princess? — Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62:… · tree and pragmatics
description: what do u call the ladies who serve the Princess? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1738 «Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the Princess, is jailed, and is sentenced to hang» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the…

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what do u call the ladies who serve the Princess?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** u, ladies · **What happens:** call, serve · **To what, where:** ladies, Princess · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1738 «Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the Princess, is jailed, and is sentenced to hang» 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/1738-pg640-part62/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:t11:1
# text = what do u call the ladies who serve the Princess?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	serve	serve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · do-support | u | the ladies |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme lady=Result |
| 2 | **serve** | present | the ladies | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Attribute |

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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 {#o1}

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handmaidens of the crown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:t11:o1:1
# text = handmaidens of the crown
1	handmaidens	handmaiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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ladies-in-waiting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:t11:o2:1
# text = ladies-in-waiting
1	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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lady-servants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:t11:o3:1
# text = lady-servants
1	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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courtiers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:t11:o4:1
# text = courtiers
1	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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