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title: what's the fancy word for a huge snow fall? — Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: what's the fancy word for a huge snow fall? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 852 «Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, part 63: Ib is happy and prosperous, and the story turns to Switzerland and the boy Rudy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, part 63: Ib is happy an…

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what's the fancy word for a huge snow fall?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, fall · **To what, where:** fancy word

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 852 «Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, part 63: Ib is happy and prosperous, and the story turns to Switzerland and the boy Rudy» 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/852-pg27200-part63/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:852-pg27200-part63:t13:1
# text = what's the fancy word for a huge snow fall?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fancy	fancy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the fancy word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for a huge snow | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for snow=Theme |

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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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mountain landslide of snow and ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:852-pg27200-part63:t13:o1:1
# text = mountain landslide of snow and ice
1	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	landslide	landslide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
snowdrift

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:852-pg27200-part63:t13:o2:1
# text = snowdrift
1	snowdrift	snowdrift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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blizzard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:852-pg27200-part63:t13:o3:1
# text = blizzard
1	blizzard	blizzard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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avalanche

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:852-pg27200-part63:t13:o4:1
# text = avalanche
1	avalanche	avalanche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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