--- title: Who was fighting to be Queen, then? — Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor, par… · tree and pragmatics description: Who was fighting to be Queen, then? Test 7 · ★ 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 option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1875-pg7277-part12/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/) / [Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor, par…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1875-pg7277-part12/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor, part 12: the watch fall… Who was fighting to be Queen, then? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** fight, be · **To what, where:** Queen This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1875-pg7277-part12:t7:1 # text = Who was fighting to be Queen, then? 1 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 fighting fight VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 6 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fight** | past · progressive | | | | | then | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | Queen | | | | | tree rules | 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} Surcantine and Balanice ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1875-pg7277-part12:t7:o1:1 # text = Surcantine and Balanice 1 Surcantine Surcantine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Balanice Balanice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Surcantine and Paridamie ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1875-pg7277-part12:t7:o2:1 # text = Surcantine and Paridamie 1 Surcantine Surcantine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Paridamie Paridamie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Surcantine and Paridamie, the two fairy rivals from the court ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1875-pg7277-part12:t7:o3:1 # text = Surcantine and Paridamie, the two fairy rivals from the court 1 Surcantine Surcantine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Paridamie Paridamie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 7 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 rivals rival NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 appos _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Mirliflor and all twelve of the fairy princesses at court ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1875-pg7277-part12:t7:o4:1 # text = Mirliflor and all twelve of the fairy princesses at court 1 Mirliflor Mirliflor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 1 appos _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 fairy fairy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 princesses princess NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ ``` 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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