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title: Ayy, what kinda snow did they call feathers? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ayy, what kinda snow did they call feathers? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 889 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 100: the storks fly south, the Viking feasts and sails away again» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

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Ayy, what kinda snow did they call feathers?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** they · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Ayy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 889 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 100: the storks fly south, the Viking feasts and sails away again» 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/889-pg27200-part100/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t11:1
# text = Ayy, what kinda snow did they call feathers?
1	Ayy	Ayy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
9	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · do-support | they | Ayy |  |  |  | snow *obl* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme feather=Result |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The falling white stuff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t11:o1:1
# text = The falling white stuff
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	amod	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Falling white cotton

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t11:o2:1
# text = Falling white cotton
1	Falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | gerund |  | white cotton |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient cotton=Result |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The cold white dust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t11:o3:1
# text = The cold white dust
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The soft white stuff that falls from the sky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:889-pg27200-part100:t11:o4:1
# text = The soft white stuff that falls from the sky
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | the soft white stuff |  |  | the sky |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sky=Initial\_Location |

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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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