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title: Gerda's gran taught her manners, right? What did she teach her? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Gerda's gran taught her manners, right? What did she teach her? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1626 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Gerda learns Kay is at a princess's palace and sneaks in, only to find the wrong boy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree an
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Gerda lea…

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Gerda's gran taught her manners, right? What did she teach her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** gran · **What happens:** teach · **To what, where:** manners, Gerda

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1626 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Gerda learns Kay is at a princess's palace and sneaks in, only to find the wrong boy» 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/1626-pg5615-part15/#t13).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Gerda's gran taught her manners, right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1626-pg5615-part15:t13:1
# text = Gerda's gran taught her manners, right?
1	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	gran	gran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Gerda's gran | gran's manners |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent manners=Recipient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What did she teach her?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1626-pg5615-part15:t13:2
# text = What did she teach her?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · do-support | gran |  | Gerda |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient she=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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To speak politely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1626-pg5615-part15:t13:o1:1
# text = To speak politely
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	politely	politely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | politely *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To sit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1626-pg5615-part15:t13:o2:1
# text = To sit
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sit	sit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To curtsy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1626-pg5615-part15:t13:o3:1
# text = To curtsy
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	curtsy	curtsy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curtsy** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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To bow properly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1626-pg5615-part15:t13:o4:1
# text = To bow properly
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	bow	bow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bow** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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