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title: Dead right, what was the snow like in winter? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead right, what was the snow like in winter? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 872 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden wedding and the boy's flight through the seasons» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each optio
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden…

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Dead right, what was the snow like in winter?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** snow

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 872 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the golden wedding and the boy's flight through the seasons» 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/872-pg27200-part83/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:t10:1
# text = Dead right, what was the snow like in winter?
1	Dead	dead	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the snow |  |  | winter |  | tree rules |

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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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as thick as a warm woolly blanket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:t10:o1:1
# text = as thick as a warm woolly blanket
1	as	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	woolly	woolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a soft white blanket covering the fields

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:t10:o2:1
# text = a soft white blanket covering the fields
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	blanket	blanket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | gerund | a soft white blanket *not said here* | the fields |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme field=Destination |

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

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like new boots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:t10:o3:1
# text = like new boots
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
white flour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:872-pg27200-part83:t10:o4:1
# text = white flour
1	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	flour	flour	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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