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title: Bro, what song made Kay start crying? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what song made Kay start crying? Test 2 · ★ 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 choice was 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Kay and Gerda come…

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Bro, what song made Kay start crying?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro, Kay · **What happens:** song, make, start, cry

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:294-pg1597-part21:t2:1
# text = Bro, what song made Kay start crying?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **song** |  | Bro and song |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | Bro and song |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **start** | infinitive | Kay |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | Kay *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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The hymn about the rose in the valley and the Christ child that made him weep

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:294-pg1597-part21:t2:o1:1
# text = The hymn about the rose in the valley and the Christ child that made him weep
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Christ	Christ	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the Christ child | hymn |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
| 2 | **weep** | infinitive | the hymn about the rose in the valley and the Christ child |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The sea shanty of the north

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:294-pg1597-part21:t2:o2:1
# text = The sea shanty of the north
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	shanty	shanty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The rose in the valley hymn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:294-pg1597-part21:t2:o3:1
# text = The rose in the valley hymn
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The old hymn about the rose in the valley that grandmother sang

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:294-pg1597-part21:t2:o4:1
# text = The old hymn about the rose in the valley that grandmother sang
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	det	_	_
11	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:unmarked	_	_
12	sang	sing	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 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the old hymn about the rose in the valley  that grandmother |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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