--- title: Which phrase describes the Snow-queen's kiss? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics description: Which phrase describes the Snow-queen's kiss? Exam question 1 of lesson 1625 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 14: Kay is carried off by the Snow-queen, and Gerda finds the witch's garden» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1625-pg5615-part14/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1625-pg5615-part14/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 14: Kay is ca… Which phrase describes the Snow-queen's kiss? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** phrase, Snow queen · **What happens:** describe, kiss · **To what, where:** kiss This is exam question 1 of lesson 1625 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 14: Kay is carried off by the Snow-queen, and Gerda finds the witch's garden» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1625-pg5615-part14/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:e1:1 # text = Which phrase describes the Snow-queen's kiss? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 phrase phrase NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 describes describe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 Snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 kiss kiss NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **describe** | present | which phrase | the Snow queen's kiss | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme | | 2 | **kiss** | | the Snow queen | | | | | | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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} As cold as ice ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:e1:o1:1 # text = As cold as ice 1 As as ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Like a hot bath ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:e1:o2:1 # text = Like a hot bath 1 Like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Like sun ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:e1:o3:1 # text = Like sun 1 Like like ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Very warm ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:e1:o4:1 # text = Very warm 1 Very very ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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