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title: Was it a long winter after the summer? — Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was it a long winter after the summer? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 965 «Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a dead foster-mother, quarrels with Martin, and leaves for the north» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 11 · ★ · Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a d…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Was it a long winter after the summer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** long winter · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** it

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 965 «Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a dead foster-mother, quarrels with Martin, and leaves for the north» 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/965-pg27200-part176/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:t11:1
# text = Was it a long winter after the summer?
1	Was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a long winter after the summer | it |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, just rainy and grey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:t11:o1:1
# text = Nah, just rainy and grey
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, mega snow and cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:t11:o2:1
# text = Yeah, mega snow and cold
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	mega	mega	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, the winter was mild and warm and the sea stayed calm all along the coast

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:t11:o3:1
# text = Nah, the winter was mild and warm and the sea stayed calm all along the coast
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	along	along	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the winter |  |  |  |  | mild *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the winter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stay** | past | the sea |  |  | the coast |  | all, calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along coast=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, it was a long freezing winter with loads of snow and ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:965-pg27200-part176:t11:o4:1
# text = Yeah, it was a long freezing winter with loads of snow and ice
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | a long freezing winter |  |  |  | with loads of snow and ice | tree rules |

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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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