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title: Who's the lame lady with the dodgy curl, the gossip queen? — Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Not… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who's the lame lady with the dodgy curl, the gossip queen? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 843 «Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care takes the goloshes, the mayor scolds a washer-woman's boy, and bad news reaches the laundress» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependen
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care t…

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Who's the lame lady with the dodgy curl, the gossip queen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** lame lady

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 843 «Andersen's Tales, She Was Good for Nothing, part 1: Care takes the goloshes, the mayor scolds a washer-woman's boy, and bad news reaches the laundress» 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/843-pg27200-part54/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t4:1
# text = Who's the lame lady with the dodgy curl, the gossip queen?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	lame	lame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	curl	curl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the lame lady |  |  |  | with the dodgy curl and the gossip queen | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Martha

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t4:o1:1
# text = Martha
1	Martha	Martha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Mary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t4:o2:1
# text = Mary
1	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	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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Ann

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t4:o3:1
# text = Ann
1	Ann	Ann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the gossiping old lady from the mill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:843-pg27200-part54:t4:o4:1
# text = the gossiping old lady from the mill
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	gossiping	gossiping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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