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title: Mega question, how old did people reckon Snowflake looked? — Slavic Tales, Snowflake: a snow girl c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mega question, how old did people reckon Snowflake looked? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1637 «Slavic Tales, Snowflake: a snow girl comes alive, then melts at Midsummer» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was
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# Test 3 · ★ · Slavic Tales, Snowflake: a snow girl comes alive, then mel…

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Mega question, how old did people reckon Snowflake looked?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mega question, Snowflake · **What happens:** reckon, look

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1637 «Slavic Tales, Snowflake: a snow girl comes alive, then melts at Midsummer» 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/1637-pg5615-part26/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1637-pg5615-part26:t3:1
# text = Mega question, how old did people reckon Snowflake looked?
1	Mega	Mega	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	Snowflake	Snowflake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past · do-support | Mega question |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | Snowflake |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 {#o1}

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Much older than the village girls, a grown woman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1637-pg5615-part26:t3:o1:1
# text = Much older than the village girls, a grown woman
1	Much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Fifteen or so

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1637-pg5615-part26:t3:o2:1
# text = Fifteen or so
1	Fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Thirteen at least

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1637-pg5615-part26:t3:o3:1
# text = Thirteen at least
1	Thirteen	thirteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Older than thirteen, maybe even sixteen or so

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1637-pg5615-part26:t3:o4:1
# text = Older than thirteen, maybe even sixteen or so
1	Older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	thirteen	thirteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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