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title: What did the Snow Man state regarding the sensation of the cold? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Coll… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the Snow Man state regarding the sensation of the cold? Exam question 4 of lesson 976 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful collar loses every bride and ends as paper» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful colla…

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What did the Snow Man state regarding the sensation of the cold?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, regard, sense · **To what, where:** Man state, cold

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 976 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful collar loses every bride and ends as paper» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/976-pg27200-part187/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:e4:1
# text = What did the Snow Man state regarding the sensation of the cold?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sensation	sensation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the Man state |  |  |  | regard the sensation of the cold | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Eventuality |
| 2 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sense** |  |  | the cold |  |  |  |  | nom sensation «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#o1}

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It made his face melt slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:e4:o1:1
# text = It made his face melt slowly
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	melt	melt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | It |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **melt** | present | his face |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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That it made his whole body crackle like dry sticks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:e4:o2:1
# text = That it made his whole body crackle like dry sticks
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	crackle	crackle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | That | his whole body crackle |  |  |  | like dry sticks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crackle=Product |
| 2 | **crackle** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom crackle «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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That the cold made his whole body crackle and then go hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:e4:o3:1
# text = That the cold made his whole body crackle and then go hard
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	crackle	crackle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | that cold | cold's whole body crackle |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crackle=Product |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | that cold *not said here* |  |  |  | then | hard *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **crackle** |  | cold |  |  |  |  |  | nom crackle «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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

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That it made his body crackle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:e4:o4:1
# text = That it made his body crackle
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	crackle	crackle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | That | his body crackle |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crackle=Product |
| 2 | **crackle** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom crackle «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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