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title: deadass, what made Kay mean to Gerda? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: deadass, what made Kay mean to Gerda? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 287 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the mirror shatters and a splinter sticks in Kay» 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 w
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the mirror…

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deadass, what made Kay mean to Gerda?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Kay · **What happens:** make, mean · **To what, where:** Kay, Gerda

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 287 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1: the mirror shatters and a splinter sticks in Kay» 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/287-pg1597-part14/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:287-pg1597-part14:t13:1
# text = deadass, what made Kay mean to Gerda?
1	deadass	deadass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	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	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	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 |  | Kay |  |  |  | deadass *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | infinitive | Kay *not said here* |  | Gerda |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to gerda=Attribute |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The shard in his eye and chest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:287-pg1597-part14:t13:o1:1
# text = The shard in his eye and chest
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shard	shard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The glass in his eye and heart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:287-pg1597-part14:t13:o2:1
# text = The glass in his eye and heart
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The glass in his eye and heart, which made him see everything as ugly and mean

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:287-pg1597-part14:t13:o3:1
# text = The glass in his eye and heart, which made him see everything as ugly and mean
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	obj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the glass in glass's eye and heart | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | him *= he* *not said here* | everything |  |  |  | as ugly | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus as ugly=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The glass in his eye and heart that the sprites had dropped from the sky

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:287-pg1597-part14:t13:o4:1
# text = The glass in his eye and heart that the sprites had dropped from the sky
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sprites	sprite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | past · perfect · passive | the glass in his eye and heart *not said here* | the sprites |  | the sky |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme from sky=Destination |

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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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