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title: Fr, who was the dude sitting on the snow heap all chill? — Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Yea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fr, who was the dude sitting on the snow heap all chill? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1031 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter and the two children of Spring» 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 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter…

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Fr, who was the dude sitting on the snow heap all chill?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fr, dude · **What happens:** be, sit, heap · **To what, where:** dude, snow, chill

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1031 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter and the two children of Spring» 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/1031-pg27200-part242/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1031-pg27200-part242:t3:1
# text = Fr, who was the dude sitting on the snow heap all chill?
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	heap	heap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	chill	chill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Fr | the dude |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | the dude *not said here* |  |  | the snow |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on snow=Location |
| 3 | **heap** | infinitive | Fr | all chill |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent chill=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 {#o1}

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The storks' father, a grey man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1031-pg27200-part242:t3:o1:1
# text = The storks' father, a grey man
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The white man, the chief of frost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1031-pg27200-part242:t3:o2:1
# text = The white man, the chief of frost
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The farmer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1031-pg27200-part242:t3:o3:1
# text = The farmer
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Winter, the old man of last year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1031-pg27200-part242:t3:o4:1
# text = Winter, the old man of last year
1	Winter	Winter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	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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