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title: State the reason the second Raven could not accompany Gerda. — Andersen's Snow Queen, The Snow Queen,… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the reason the second Raven could not accompany Gerda. Exam question 4 of lesson 291 «Andersen's Snow Queen, The Snow Queen, part 18: Gerda finds a Prince, then robbers seize her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Snow Queen, The Snow Queen, part 18: Gerda find…

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State the reason the second Raven could not accompany Gerda.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** second Raven · **What happens:** not accompany · **To what, where:** Gerda

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 291 «Andersen's Snow Queen, The Snow Queen, part 18: Gerda finds a Prince, then robbers seize her» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/291-pg1597-part18/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:291-pg1597-part18:e4:1
# text = State the reason the second Raven could not accompany Gerda.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	Raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	accompany	accompany	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **accompany** | could | the second Raven | Gerda |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gerda=Theme |

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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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a cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:291-pg1597-part18:e4:o1:1
# text = a cold
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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a headache from eating too much

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:291-pg1597-part18:e4:o2:1
# text = a headache from eating too much
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	headache	headache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund | a headache *not said here* | much |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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he had lost his way

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:291-pg1597-part18:e4:o3:1
# text = he had lost his way
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | past · perfect | he | his way |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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he was too frightened of the dark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:291-pg1597-part18:e4:o4:1
# text = he was too frightened of the dark
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · passive |  | he |  |  |  | of the dark; frightened *property* | tree rules |

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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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