--- title: Innit, what time of year was it, like? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mat… · tree and pragmatics description: Innit, what time of year was it, like? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 306 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl freezes on New Year's Eve» 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 right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/306-pg1597-part33/t2/) [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 Little Mat…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/306-pg1597-part33/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl… Innit, what time of year was it, like? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** time · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** it This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 306 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Match Girl: a poor girl freezes on New Year's Eve» 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/306-pg1597-part33/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t2:1 # text = Innit, what time of year was it, like? 1 Innit Innit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 3 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 4 det _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 1 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | what time of year | it | | | | | tree rules | 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} New Year's Eve ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t2:o1:1 # text = New Year's Eve 1 New New PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 Eve Eve PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Boxing Day, the big sale day, like ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t2:o2:1 # text = Boxing Day, the big sale day, like 1 Boxing box VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 Day Day PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 sale sale NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 9 like like INTJ UH _ 1 discourse _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **box** | gerund | | Day | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent day=Co-Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} the first day of the spring holiday, like ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t2:o3:1 # text = the first day of the spring holiday, like 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 amod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 like like INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Christmas Eve ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:306-pg1597-part33:t2:o4:1 # text = Christmas Eve 1 Christmas Christmas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 Eve Eve PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ ``` 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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