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title: Right, what did the queen wish her baby would look like? — Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Right, what did the queen wish her baby would look like? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 754 «Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the witch chases the lovers, Roland forgets, and Snowdrop is sent into the wood» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Test 12 · ★ · Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the witch chases the lo…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Right, what did the queen wish her baby would look like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** baby · **What happens:** do, look · **To what, where:** queen

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 754 «Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the witch chases the lovers, Roland forgets, and Snowdrop is sent into the wood» 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/754-pg2591-part30/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:754-pg2591-part30:t12:1
# text = Right, what did the queen wish her baby would look like?
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	wish	wish	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the queen |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Eventuality |
| 2 | **look** | would | her baby | the queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme queen=Attribute |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
White as snow, red as blood, black as ebony, and as gentle as a dove

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:754-pg2591-part30:t12:o1:1
# text = White as snow, red as blood, black as ebony, and as gentle as a dove
1	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ebony	ebony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Golden as sun, red as lips, black as coal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:754-pg2591-part30:t12:o2:1
# text = Golden as sun, red as lips, black as coal
1	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	case	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
White as snow, red as blood, black as ebony

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:754-pg2591-part30:t12:o3:1
# text = White as snow, red as blood, black as ebony
1	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	case	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	ebony	ebony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
As white as fresh snow on the hills, as red as blood on the snow, and as black as ebony wood.

<!-- fold The tree, 21 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:754-pg2591-part30:t12:o4:1
# text = As white as fresh snow on the hills, as red as blood on the snow, and as black as ebony wood.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	ebony	ebony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

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