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title: Lowkey creepy, what did the snowflakes look like? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lowkey creepy, what did the snowflakes look like? Test 9 · ★ 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 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 20: Gerda get…

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Lowkey creepy, what did the snowflakes look like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Lowkey creepy, snowflakes · **What happens:** do, look

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:293-pg1597-part20:t9:1
# text = Lowkey creepy, what did the snowflakes look like?
1	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	creepy	creepy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	snowflakes	snowflake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Lowkey creepy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | the snowflakes |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Porcupines and snakes and bears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:293-pg1597-part20:t9:o1:1
# text = Porcupines and snakes and bears
1	Porcupines	porcupine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Hedgehogs and serpents and wolves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:293-pg1597-part20:t9:o2:1
# text = Hedgehogs and serpents and wolves
1	Hedgehogs	hedgehog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Porcupines, snakes, and bears, all alive and moving about in a crowd

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:293-pg1597-part20:t9:o3:1
# text = Porcupines, snakes, and bears, all alive and moving about in a crowd
1	Porcupines	porcupine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move about** | gerund |  |  |  | a crowd |  | about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in crowd=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Spiky beasts and snakes and dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:293-pg1597-part20:t9:o4:1
# text = Spiky beasts and snakes and dogs
1	Spiky	spiky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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