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title: Proper mad, what did the Snow-man reckon the sun was? — Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proper mad, what did the Snow-man reckon the sun was? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1619 «Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born and learns about the sun, the moon and the weather» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born…

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Proper mad, what did the Snow-man reckon the sun was?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Snow man · **What happens:** be, reckon · **To what, where:** sun

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1619 «Andersen's Tales, The Snow-Man, part 1: a Snow-man is born and learns about the sun, the moon and the weather» 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/1619-pg5615-part8/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1619-pg5615-part8:t3:1
# text = Proper mad, what did the Snow-man reckon the sun was?
1	Proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | mad, properly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reckon** | past · do-support | the Snow man | the sun |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Theme sun=Attribute |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Not his friend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1619-pg5615-part8:t3:o1:1
# text = Not his friend
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Enemy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1619-pg5615-part8:t3:o2:1
# text = Enemy
1	Enemy	Enemy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A foe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1619-pg5615-part8:t3:o3:1
# text = A foe
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Not his brother

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1619-pg5615-part8:t3:o4:1
# text = Not his brother
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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