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title: Could Kay just jump off the big sledge? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Could Kay just jump off the big sledge? Test 4 · ★ 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 e
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 14: Kay is ca…

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Could Kay just jump off the big sledge?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Kay · **What happens:** jump off · **To what, where:** big sledge

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:t4:1
# text = Could Kay just jump off the big sledge?
1	Could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	jump	jump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump off** | present | Kay | the big sledge |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sledge=Trajectory |

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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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Nah, it stuck on like glue and he couldn't even shout

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:t4:o1:1
# text = Nah, it stuck on like glue and he couldn't even shout
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	glue	glue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick on** | past | it |  |  |  |  | like glue | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **shout** *speech: express* | could | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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Nah, it stuck on like glue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:t4:o2:1
# text = Nah, it stuck on like glue
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	glue	glue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick on** | past | it |  |  |  |  | like glue | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Yeah he could've, but he were too scared to try it, mate

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:t4:o3:1
# text = Yeah he could've, but he were too scared to try it, mate
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	've	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	csubj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | to-infinitive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yeah, he jumped off fine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:t4:o4:1
# text = Yeah, he jumped off fine
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump off** | past | he |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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