Top pair
Top pair is a pair made with one of your cards and the highest card on the board.
With ace-queen on a board of queen, seven, three you have top pair with the best kicker. It is usually worth betting for value, and usually not strong enough to play for a deep stack against heavy action.
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Practise decisions like this in the trainer: ten hands at a time, with the answer and the reason.