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title: Wait, what's the crow's missus wearing round her leg? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what's the crow's missus wearing round her leg? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 986 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come home grown up, and the Flower is thrown away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come…

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Wait, what's the crow's missus wearing round her leg?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, missus · **What happens:** wait, be, wear · **To what, where:** missus

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 986 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come home grown up, and the Flower is thrown away» 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/986-pg27200-part197/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:t2:1
# text = Wait, what's the crow's missus wearing round her leg?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	missus	missus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
9	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	round	round	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 | **is a** | present |  | the crow's missus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wear** | gerund | the crow's missus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round crow's leg | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |

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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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Black worsted wool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:t2:o1:1
# text = Black worsted wool
1	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	worsted	worsted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	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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Golden wire ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:t2:o2:1
# text = Golden wire ring
1	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	wire	wire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	ring	ring	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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Blue woolen yarn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:t2:o3:1
# text = Blue woolen yarn
1	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	woolen	woolen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	yarn	yarn	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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Black string

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:t2:o4:1
# text = Black string
1	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	string	string	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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