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title: Okay but why did Joanna's tears feel like ice? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tre… · tree and pragmatics
description: Okay but why did Joanna's tears feel like ice? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1018 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under the willow and is found frozen to death» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under…

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Okay but why did Joanna's tears feel like ice?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** tears · **What happens:** feel

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1018 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Willow-Tree: Knud dreams under the willow and is found frozen to death» 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/1018-pg27200-part229/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1018-pg27200-part229:t4:1
# text = Okay but why did Joanna's tears feel like ice?
1	Okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	Joanna	Joanna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past · do-support | Joanna's tears |  |  |  |  | like ice | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like ice=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 {#o1}

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It was just the winter wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1018-pg27200-part229:t4:o1:1
# text = It was just the winter wind
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | the winter wind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Her heart was melting for him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1018-pg27200-part229:t4:o2:1
# text = Her heart was melting for him
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	melting	melt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | past · progressive | Her heart |  |  |  |  | for him *= he* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Her heart was frozen with grief

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1018-pg27200-part229:t4:o3:1
# text = Her heart was frozen with grief
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | past · passive |  | Her heart |  |  |  | with grief | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with grief=Instrument |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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She was cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1018-pg27200-part229:t4:o4:1
# text = She was cold
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | She |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |

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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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