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title: Ngl, how cold was her kiss? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, how cold was her kiss? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 288 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Kay is carried off by the Snow Queen while Gerda drifts away by river» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Kay is ca…

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Ngl, how cold was her kiss?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ngl · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** kiss

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 288 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 15: Kay is carried off by the Snow Queen while Gerda drifts away by river» 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/288-pg1597-part15/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:288-pg1597-part15:t4:1
# text = Ngl, how cold was her kiss?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Ngl | Ngl's kiss |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Warm, not even cold, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:288-pg1597-part15:t4:o1:1
# text = Warm, not even cold, lol
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Really icy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:288-pg1597-part15:t4:o2:1
# text = Really icy
1	Really	really	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Colder than ice, proper freezing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:288-pg1597-part15:t4:o3:1
# text = Colder than ice, proper freezing
1	Colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Like frost, proper nippy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:288-pg1597-part15:t4:o4:1
# text = Like frost, proper nippy
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	nippy	nippy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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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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