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title: Okay, what made Snowflake gloomy in spring? — Slavic Tales, Snowflake: a snow girl c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Okay, what made Snowflake gloomy in spring? Test 9 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Slavic Tales, Snowflake: a snow girl comes alive, then mel…

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Okay, what made Snowflake gloomy in spring?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** make · **To what, where:** Snowflake

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1637-pg5615-part26:t9:1
# text = Okay, what made Snowflake gloomy in spring?
1	Okay	okay	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Snowflake	Snowflake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | Snowflake |  |  |  | gloomy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material snowflake=Product |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The birds and flowers being so gay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1637-pg5615-part26:t9:o1:1
# text = The birds and flowers being so gay
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	gay	gay	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** | gerund | the birds and flowers |  |  |  |  | gay *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The loud noise of the village

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1637-pg5615-part26:t9:o2:1
# text = The loud noise of the village
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **noise** |  | the village |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The birds singing and flowers blooming all around her in the bright sunshine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1637-pg5615-part26:t9:o3:1
# text = The birds singing and flowers blooming all around her in the bright sunshine
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	around	around	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the birds and flowers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bloom** | gerund | the birds and flowers *not said here* |  |  | the bright sunshine |  | around her *= she* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around she=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The other children laughing together and dancing while she stayed in the house alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1637-pg5615-part26:t9:o4:1
# text = The other children laughing together and dancing while she stayed in the house alone
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | gerund | the other children |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dance** | gerund | the other children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stay** | past | she |  |  | the house |  | alone *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |

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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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