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title: Be so for real, what did the queen bee sit on? — Grimm's Tales, The Queen Bee: the wolf… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be so for real, what did the queen bee sit on? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 762 «Grimm's Tales, The Queen Bee: the wolf drowns and the dwarf wins the three tasks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right
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# Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Queen Bee: the wolf drowns and the dwar…

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Be so for real, what did the queen bee sit on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, queen bee · **What happens:** be, sit on

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 762 «Grimm's Tales, The Queen Bee: the wolf drowns and the dwarf wins the three tasks» 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/762-pg2591-part38/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:762-pg2591-part38:t9:1
# text = Be so for real, what did the queen bee sit on?
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit on** | past · do-support | the queen bee |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the lips of the honey princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:762-pg2591-part38:t9:o1:1
# text = the lips of the honey princess
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the youngest's cheek

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:762-pg2591-part38:t9:o2:1
# text = the youngest's cheek
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the princess's nose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:762-pg2591-part38:t9:o3:1
# text = the princess's nose
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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her nose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:762-pg2591-part38:t9:o4:1
# text = her nose
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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