--- title: What was the old woman's stick for? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics description: What was the old woman's stick for? Test 8 · ★ 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1625-pg5615-part14/t8/) [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/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 14: Kay is ca… What was the old woman's stick for? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** stick · **What happens:** be This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:t8:1 # text = What was the old woman's stick for? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | the old woman's stick | | | | | | tree rules | 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} Holding her up when she walked through the garden ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:t8:o1:1 # text = Holding her up when she walked through the garden 1 Holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 2 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 through through ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold up** | gerund | she *not said here* | her *= she* | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | past | she | | | the garden | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through garden=Trajectory | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Holding her up ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:t8:o2:1 # text = Holding her up 1 Holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold up** | gerund | | her *= she* | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Scaring the birds ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:t8:o3:1 # text = Scaring the birds 1 Scaring scare VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scare** | gerund | | the birds | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer | ### Option 4 {#o4} Digging the soil ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1625-pg5615-part14:t8:o4:1 # text = Digging the soil 1 Digging dig VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dig** | gerund | | the soil | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent soil=Theme | **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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