--- title: What did the glass always say to the queen at first? — Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the… · tree and pragmatics description: What did the glass always say to the queen at first? Test 15 · ★ 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 question an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/754-pg2591-part30/t15/) [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/) / [Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/754-pg2591-part30/) / t15 # Test 15 · ★ · Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the witch chases the lo… What did the glass always say to the queen at first? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** queen · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 15 · ★ 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/#t15). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:754-pg2591-part30:t15:1 # text = What did the glass always say to the queen at first? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 6 advmod _ _ 6 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | | | the queen | | | always *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to queen=Recipient | 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} Thou art fair ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:754-pg2591-part30:t15:o1:1 # text = Thou art fair 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 nsubj _ _ 2 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Thou art the fairest of the court ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:754-pg2591-part30:t15:o2:1 # text = Thou art the fairest of the court 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 nsubj _ _ 2 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 fairest fair ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Thou art the queen of all the land ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:754-pg2591-part30:t15:o3:1 # text = Thou art the queen of all the land 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 nsubj _ _ 2 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 8 det:predet _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Thou art the fairest in all the land ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:754-pg2591-part30:t15:o4:1 # text = Thou art the fairest in all the land 1 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 2 nsubj _ _ 2 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 fairest fair ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 8 det:predet _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` 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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