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title: Bro, how did Gerda stay brave out there? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, how did Gerda stay brave out there? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 293 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 20: Gerda gets help in Finland, then walks on alone among living snowflakes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 20: Gerda get…

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Bro, how did Gerda stay brave out there?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Gerda · **What happens:** stay

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 293 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 20: Gerda gets help in Finland, then walks on alone among living snowflakes» 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/293-pg1597-part20/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:293-pg1597-part20:t10:1
# text = Bro, how did Gerda stay brave out there?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past · do-support | Gerda |  |  | there |  | Bro *vocative*; brave *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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She repeated her mother's psalm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:293-pg1597-part20:t10:o1:1
# text = She repeated her mother's psalm
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	psalm	psalm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | past | She | her mother's psalm |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalm=Eventuality |

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

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She said the Lord's Prayer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:293-pg1597-part20:t10:o2:1
# text = She said the Lord's Prayer
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	Prayer	Prayer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | She |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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She sang a short old hymn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:293-pg1597-part20:t10:o3:1
# text = She sang a short old hymn
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | She | a short old hymn |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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She prayed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:293-pg1597-part20:t10:o4:1
# text = She prayed
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | past | She |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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