--- title: wait, what did the ants say the queen had? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast… · tree and pragmatics description: wait, what did the ants say the queen had? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 300 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the soldier is found again in a garden, then The Happy Family begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/300-pg1597-part27/t10/) [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/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/300-pg1597-part27/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the sol… wait, what did the ants say the queen had? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, ants, queen · **What happens:** wait, say, have · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 300 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the soldier is found again in a garden, then The Happy Family begins» 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/300-pg1597-part27/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:t10:1 # text = wait, what did the ants say the queen had? 1 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the ants | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | past | the queen | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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} a hill with thousands of narrow tunnels ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:t10:o1:1 # text = a hill with thousands of narrow tunnels 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 tunnels tunnel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} a mound of many chambers ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:t10:o2:1 # text = a mound of many chambers 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 mound mound NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 chambers chamber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} a palace ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:t10:o3:1 # text = a palace 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} a palace with seven hundred passages ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:t10:o4:1 # text = a palace with seven hundred passages 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 compound _ _ 5 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 passages passage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 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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