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title: Ay, what did the queen do with her long brown hair? — Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ay, what did the queen do with her long brown hair? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1761 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is taken prisoner and his queen sets out disguised as a boy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is take…

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Ay, what did the queen do with her long brown hair?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** queen

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1761 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is taken prisoner and his queen sets out disguised as a boy» 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/1761-pg641-part12/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t8:1
# text = Ay, what did the queen do with her long brown hair?
1	Ay	ay	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the queen |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | present |  |  |  |  |  | with her long brown hair | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 -->
cut it all off and sold it to a merchant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t8:o1:1
# text = cut it all off and sold it to a merchant
1	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut off** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sell** | past | you *not said here* | it | a merchant |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to merchant=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
tied it up tight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t8:o2:1
# text = tied it up tight
1	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	tight	tight	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie up** | past |  | it |  |  |  | tight *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
cut it all off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t8:o3:1
# text = cut it all off
1	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	off	off	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | off *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
hid it under a hat and cut it all off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t8:o4:1
# text = hid it under a hat and cut it all off
1	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	under	under	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	off	off	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past |  | it |  | a hat |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under hat=Location |
| 2 | **cut** | past |  | hat |  |  |  | off *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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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