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title: sus, why did the robber-girl say they won't kill her? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: sus, why did the robber-girl say they won't kill her? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1627 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda leaves the robbers and rides a reindeer north» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda lea…

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sus, why did the robber-girl say they won't kill her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sus, they · **What happens:** do, say, not kill · **To what, where:** robber girl, girl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1627 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda leaves the robbers and rides a reindeer north» 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/1627-pg5615-part16/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1627-pg5615-part16:t5:1
# text = sus, why did the robber-girl say they won't kill her?
1	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the robber girl |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | sus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **kill** | future | they | girl |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Cos Gerda's not gonna be naughty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1627-pg5615-part16:t5:o1:1
# text = Cos Gerda's not gonna be naughty
1	Cos	Cos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	appos	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | Cos Gerda |  |  |  |  | naughty *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Cos she's gonna be a good girl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1627-pg5615-part16:t5:o2:1
# text = Cos she's gonna be a good girl
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	gonna	gonna	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | she | a good girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cos Gerda's not gonna be naughty and she's got that muff for us

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1627-pg5615-part16:t5:o3:1
# text = Cos Gerda's not gonna be naughty and she's got that muff for us
1	Cos	Cos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	muff	muff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | infinitive | Cos Gerda |  |  |  |  | naughty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | present · passive | Gerda | that muff |  |  |  | for us | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent muff=Theme for we=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cos Gerda's not gonna be naughty so she's safe with us

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1627-pg5615-part16:t5:o4:1
# text = Cos Gerda's not gonna be naughty so she's safe with us
1	Cos	Cos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | infinitive | Cos Gerda |  |  |  |  | naughty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Gerda |  |  |  |  | with us; safe *property* | tree rules |

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