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title: Did Kay like Grandma's voice thing? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Kay like Grandma's voice thing? Test 2 · ★ 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 question and of each 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 14: Kay is ca…

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Did Kay like Grandma's voice thing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Kay

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This is test 2 · ★ 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. 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:t2:1
# text = Did Kay like Grandma's voice thing?
1	Did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | Kay |  |  |  | like Grandma's voice thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kay=Eventuality |

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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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Yeah, he were dead chuffed with it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:t2:o1:1
# text = Yeah, he were dead chuffed with it
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	chuffed	chuff	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chuff** | past · passive |  | he |  |  |  | with it | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Nah, he took the mick out of her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:t2:o2:1
# text = Nah, he took the mick out of her
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mick	mick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | he | the mick |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mick=Theme her=Destination |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Nah, he just ignored it, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:t2:o3:1
# text = Nah, he just ignored it, mate
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	ignored	ignore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | past | he | it |  |  |  | mate *vocative* | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nah, he took the mick out of her in front of the whole family

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:t2:o4:1
# text = Nah, he took the mick out of her in front of the whole family
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mick	mick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | he | the mick |  | front of the whole family |  | out her *= she* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent mick=Theme out she=Initial\_Location |

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