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title: What was that pink thing on the babies' necks? — Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was that pink thing on the babies' necks? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1875 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor, part 12: the watch falls into the sea and the fairies choose a new Queen» 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 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor, part 12: the watch fall…

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What was that pink thing on the babies' necks?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** pink thing, necks

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1875 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor, part 12: the watch falls into the sea and the fairies choose a new Queen» 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/1875-pg7277-part12/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1875-pg7277-part12:t11:1
# text = What was that pink thing on the babies' necks?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	'	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	necks	neck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | that pink thing |  | the babies's necks |  |  | tree rules |

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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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A small pink rose painted carefully on each baby's throat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1875-pg7277-part12:t11:o1:1
# text = A small pink rose painted carefully on each baby's throat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pink	pink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | past · passive |  | a small pink |  | each baby's throat |  | carefully *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme on throat=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A small blue star

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1875-pg7277-part12:t11:o2:1
# text = A small blue star
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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A pink ribbon with a little silver bell tied on tightly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1875-pg7277-part12:t11:o3:1
# text = A pink ribbon with a little silver bell tied on tightly
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** | participle |  | a little silver bell *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on tightly=Co-Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A little pink rose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1875-pg7277-part12:t11:o4:1
# text = A little pink rose
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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