--- title: In which season did Kay and Gerda return to their home town at the c… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics description: In which season did Kay and Gerda return to their home town at the close of the tale? Exam question 3 of lesson 1628 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda finds Kay in the ice palace and they walk home to summer» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1628-pg5615-part17/e3/) [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/1628-pg5615-part17/) / e3 # Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda finds Kay in… In which season did Kay and Gerda return to their home town at the close of the tale? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Kay · **What happens:** return · **To what, where:** close This is exam question 3 of lesson 1628 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda finds Kay in the ice palace and they walk home to summer» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1628-pg5615-part17/#e3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1628-pg5615-part17:e3:1 # text = In which season did Kay and Gerda return to their home town at the close of the tale? 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 3 det _ _ 3 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 5 Kay Kay PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 Gerda Gerda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 return return VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 close close NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **return** | past · do-support | Kay and Gerda | | | the close of the tale | season | to Kay's home town *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result | 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} Midsummer, when the whole town was hot and bright ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1628-pg5615-part17:e3:o1:1 # text = Midsummer, when the whole town was hot and bright 1 Midsummer midsummer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the whole town | | | | | hot *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | the whole town *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Early spring, with the first warm flowers blooming ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1628-pg5615-part17:e3:o2:1 # text = Early spring, with the first warm flowers blooming 1 Early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 amod _ _ 7 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 9 blooming bloom VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bloom** | gerund | the first warm flowers *not said here* | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} Night ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1628-pg5615-part17:e3:o3:1 # text = Night 1 Night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Summer ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1628-pg5615-part17:e3:o4:1 # text = Summer 1 Summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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