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title: what did the snow lady look like, sick or nah? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the snow lady look like, sick or nah? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1624 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror breaks and Kay gets a splinter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice w
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror b…

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what did the snow lady look like, sick or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** snow lady · **What happens:** look

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1624 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: a mirror breaks and Kay gets a splinter» 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/1624-pg5615-part13/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1624-pg5615-part13:t7:1
# text = what did the snow lady look like, sick or nah?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · do-support | the snow lady |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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all ice, yeah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1624-pg5615-part13:t7:o1:1
# text = all ice, yeah
1	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
pretty, yeah

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1624-pg5615-part13:t7:o2:1
# text = pretty, yeah
1	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
all ice but dead pretty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1624-pg5615-part13:t7:o3:1
# text = all ice but dead pretty
1	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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all white, kinda scary

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1624-pg5615-part13:t7:o4:1
# text = all white, kinda scary
1	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	scary	scary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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