--- title: Okay, what were the angels holding, like for real? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics description: Okay, what were the angels holding, like for real? Test 11 · ★ 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 questio --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/293-pg1597-part20/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/293-pg1597-part20/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 20: Gerda get… Okay, what were the angels holding, like for real? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** angels · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** angels This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:293-pg1597-part20:t11:1 # text = Okay, what were the angels holding, like for real? 1 Okay okay INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 angels angel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 holding hold VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | | the angels | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hold** | gerund | the angels *not said here* | | | | | like real | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} Lances and shields and banners and golden trumpets ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:293-pg1597-part20:t11:o1:1 # text = Lances and shields and banners and golden trumpets 1 Lances lance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 shields shield NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 banners banner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 trumpets trumpet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Long lances, shining shields, and little silver bells for the march ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:293-pg1597-part20:t11:o2:1 # text = Long lances, shining shields, and little silver bells for the march 1 Long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 lances lance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 shining shine VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ _ 5 shields shield NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 bells bell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 march march NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shine** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **bell** | present | Long lances and shining shields | | | | | for the march | tree rules | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Lances and shields ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:293-pg1597-part20:t11:o3:1 # text = Lances and shields 1 Lances lance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 shields shield NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Silver helmets ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:293-pg1597-part20:t11:o4:1 # text = Silver helmets 1 Silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 helmets helmet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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