--- title: Did the snow crackle when you walked on it? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree… · tree and pragmatics description: Did the snow crackle when you walked on it? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 296 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending, Remembrance flies through the seasons and the old couple wear golden crowns» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/296-pg1597-part23/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 Elder-Tree…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/296-pg1597-part23/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending,… Did the snow crackle when you walked on it? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** do, walk · **To what, where:** snow crackle, crackle This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 296 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending, Remembrance flies through the seasons and the old couple wear golden crowns» 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/296-pg1597-part23/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:296-pg1597-part23:t11:1 # text = Did the snow crackle when you walked on it? 1 Did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 crackle crackle NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | the snow crackle | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crackle=Eventuality | | 2 | **walk** | past | you | | | crackle | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory | 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} Nah, not really ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:296-pg1597-part23:t11:o1:1 # text = Nah, not really 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Yeah, loudly ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:296-pg1597-part23:t11:o2:1 # text = Yeah, loudly 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Nah, it was soft like feathers ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:296-pg1597-part23:t11:o3:1 # text = Nah, it was soft like feathers 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | it | | | | | like feathers; soft *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Yeah, like you had new boots on ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:296-pg1597-part23:t11:o4:1 # text = Yeah, like you had new boots on 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 like like SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 boots boot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 on on ADP IN _ 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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