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title: yo what was the queen's job, like was she a farmer or a witch-queen? — English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo what was the queen's job, like was she a farmer or a witch-queen? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1966 «English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is eaten, and the dove flies to the queen» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is e…

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yo what was the queen's job, like was she a farmer or a witch-queen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** farmer · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** job

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1966 «English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is eaten, and the dove flies to the 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/1966-pg7439-part25/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t6:1
# text = yo what was the queen's job, like was she a farmer or a witch-queen?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the queen's job |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | a farmer or a witch queen |  |  |  |  | like she | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a queen with magic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t6:o1:1
# text = a queen with magic
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a queen who could work magic and spells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t6:o2:1
# text = a queen who could work magic and spells
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
8	spells	spell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | could | a queen |  |  |  |  | magic *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spell** | present | a queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a queen of spells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t6:o3:1
# text = a queen of spells
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a queen who knew all the old magic arts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1966-pg7439-part25:t6:o4:1
# text = a queen who knew all the old magic arts
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	arts	art	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | a queen | all old magic arts |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer art=Stimulus |

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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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