--- title: lowkey, what did the ant-queen say was the tallest thing? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sa… · tree and pragmatics description: lowkey, what did the ant-queen say was the tallest thing? Test 14 · ★ of lesson 990 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 201: the elves' glittering maypole and feast, the violet staff and noisy kitchen, then the second mouse sets out to become a poet» of the books course of Mova --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/990-pg27200-part201/t14/) [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/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sa…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/990-pg27200-part201/) / t14 # Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 2… lowkey, what did the ant-queen say was the tallest thing? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lowkey, queen say · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** tallest thing This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 990 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 201: the elves' glittering maypole and feast, the violet staff and noisy kitchen, then the second mouse sets out to become a poet» 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/990-pg27200-part201/#t14). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:990-pg27200-part201:t14:1 # text = lowkey, what did the ant-queen say was the tallest thing? 1 lowkey lowkey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 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 9 det _ _ 6 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 say say NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 tallest tall ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | lowkey | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | the queen say | the tallest thing | | | | | tree rules | 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} the sky ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:990-pg27200-part201:t14:o1:1 # text = the sky 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the tree, duh ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:990-pg27200-part201:t14:o2:1 # text = the tree, duh 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 duh duh INTJ UH _ 2 discourse _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} the ant-hill, duh ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:990-pg27200-part201:t14:o3:1 # text = the ant-hill, duh 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 duh duh INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} the big oak tree ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:990-pg27200-part201:t14:o4:1 # text = the big oak tree 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 oak oak NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` 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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