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title: Lowkey, what made the snowy path so awkward for those two people? — Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Yea… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lowkey, what made the snowy path so awkward for those two people? Test 4 · ★ 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 opt
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Year: sparrows, Winter…

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Lowkey, what made the snowy path so awkward for those two people?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** snowy path

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1031-pg27200-part242:t4:1
# text = Lowkey, what made the snowy path so awkward for those two people?
1	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	awkward	awkward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | the snowy path |  |  |  | Lowkey *vocative* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material path=Product |

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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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Both were carrying heavy loads

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1031-pg27200-part242:t4:o1:1
# text = Both were carrying heavy loads
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past · progressive | Both | heavy loads |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The snow was deep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1031-pg27200-part242:t4:o2:1
# text = The snow was deep
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	deep	deep	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 | the snow |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The path was far too narrow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1031-pg27200-part242:t4:o3:1
# text = The path was far too narrow
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	narrow	narrow	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 | the path |  |  |  |  | far, narrow *property* | tree rules |

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

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Neither wanted to step aside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1031-pg27200-part242:t4:o4:1
# text = Neither wanted to step aside
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	step	step	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past |  |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **step** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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