--- title: Yo, what did the clock say when they walked in? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics description: Yo, what did the clock say when they walked in? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 294 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Kay and Gerda come home, then a jumping contest begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/294-pg1597-part21/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/294-pg1597-part21/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Kay and Gerda come… Yo, what did the clock say when they walked in? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** clock, they · **What happens:** do, say, walk in · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 294 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Kay and Gerda come home, then a jumping contest begins» 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/294-pg1597-part21/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:294-pg1597-part21:t11:1 # text = Yo, what did the clock say when they walked in? 1 Yo yo INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 clock clock NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 11 in in ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the clock | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **walk in** | past | they | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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} Tock! ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:294-pg1597-part21:t11:o1:1 # text = Tock! 1 Tock tock VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tock** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Tick! ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:294-pg1597-part21:t11:o2:1 # text = Tick! 1 Tick tick NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Tick! tack! ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:294-pg1597-part21:t11:o3:1 # text = Tick! tack! 1 Tick tick NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 3 tack tack NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Tick! tack! tick! tack! tick! tack! ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:294-pg1597-part21:t11:o4:1 # text = Tick! tack! tick! tack! tick! tack! 1 Tick tick NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 3 tack tack NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 5 tick tick NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 7 tack tack NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 9 tick tick NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 11 tack tack NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` 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. Elamur Cosmic License. - ← previous: [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen…, test 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/294-pg1597-part21/t10/) - next →: [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen…, test 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/294-pg1597-part21/t12/) - ↑ back to [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Kay and Gerda come home, then a jumping contest begins](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/294-pg1597-part21/)