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title: lol why'd the Queen do the bag thing? — Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62:… · tree and pragmatics
description: lol why'd the Queen do the bag thing? Test 3 · ★ 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 option; Mova's 
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# Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box, part 62: the Soldier sees the…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
lol why'd the Queen do the bag thing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** bag thing

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:t3:1
# text = lol why'd the Queen do the bag thing?
1	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | the Queen | the bag thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to mark the Princess's room

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:t3:o1:1
# text = to mark the Princess's room
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	mark	mark	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | to-infinitive |  | the Princess's room |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent room=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to follow the Princess's path by the buckwheat grains dropped along the street

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:t3:o2:1
# text = to follow the Princess's path by the buckwheat grains dropped along the street
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	buckwheat	buckwheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
11	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	along	along	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | to-infinitive |  | the Princess's path |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme |
| 2 | **drop** | past |  |  |  | the street |  | by the buckwheat grains | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent by grain=Destination along street=Initial\_Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to trace the Princess's path with grains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:t3:o3:1
# text = to trace the Princess's path with grains
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	trace	trace	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trace** | to-infinitive |  | the Princess's path |  |  |  | with grains | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
to test whether the lady-in-waiting could be trusted with the grains

<!-- fold The tree, 13 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1738-pg640-part62:t3:o4:1
# text = to test whether the lady-in-waiting could be trusted with the grains
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	test	test	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	waiting	waiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **test** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **trust** | could · passive |  | the lady and waiting |  |  |  | with the grains | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with grain=Theme |

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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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