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title: Ngl, what did the woodcutters do each autumn? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what did the woodcutters do each autumn? Test 14 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda finds Kay in…

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Ngl, what did the woodcutters do each autumn?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ngl, woodcutters · **What happens:** do

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This is test 14 · ★ 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. 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/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1628-pg5615-part17:t14:1
# text = Ngl, what did the woodcutters do each autumn?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	woodcutters	woodcutter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Ngl |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | the woodcutters |  |  |  | autumn |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Felled the biggest spruce trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1628-pg5615-part17:t14:o1:1
# text = Felled the biggest spruce trees
1	Felled	fell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
4	spruce	spruce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fell** | past |  | the biggest spruce trees |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Went out each autumn and chopped down the very tallest trees around

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1628-pg5615-part17:t14:o2:1
# text = Went out each autumn and chopped down the very tallest trees around
1	Went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	chopped	chop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
12	around	around	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | past |  |  |  |  | autumn | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **chop down** | past |  | the tallest trees |  |  |  | around *property* | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Chopped down the tallest trees and sold them in town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1628-pg5615-part17:t14:o3:1
# text = Chopped down the tallest trees and sold them in town
1	Chopped	chop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chop down** | participle |  | the tallest trees |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |
| 2 | **sell** | past |  | trees *= tree* |  | town |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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

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Chopped down the tallest trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1628-pg5615-part17:t14:o4:1
# text = Chopped down the tallest trees
1	Chopped	chop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	down	down	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chop down** | participle |  | the tallest trees |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient |

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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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