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title: Bruv, what was the lady wearing, like a fancy coat? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruv, what was the lady wearing, like a fancy coat? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 288 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Kay is carried off by the Snow Queen while Gerda drifts away by river» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Kay is ca…

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Bruv, what was the lady wearing, like a fancy coat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bruv, lady · **What happens:** be, wear · **To what, where:** lady

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 288 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Kay is carried off by the Snow Queen while Gerda drifts away by river» 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/288-pg1597-part15/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:288-pg1597-part15:t3:1
# text = Bruv, what was the lady wearing, like a fancy coat?
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bruv | the lady |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** | gerund | the lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a fancy coat | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A massive white fur mantle and a sparkly silver crown with ice on it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:288-pg1597-part15:t3:o1:1
# text = A massive white fur mantle and a sparkly silver crown with ice on it
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	sparkly	sparkly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A white coat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:288-pg1597-part15:t3:o2:1
# text = A white coat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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A massive white fur mantle and a cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:288-pg1597-part15:t3:o3:1
# text = A massive white fur mantle and a cap
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A thick grey wool cloak, no hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:288-pg1597-part15:t3:o4:1
# text = A thick grey wool cloak, no hat
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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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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