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title: is the window freezing or thawing when the snowman is stuck? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man,… · tree and pragmatics
description: is the window freezing or thawing when the snowman is stuck? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 977 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw comes, and the Snow Man longs for the stove» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of eac
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw com…

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is the window freezing or thawing when the snowman is stuck?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, thaw, stick · **To what, where:** window freezing, snowman

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 977 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Man, part 188: a thaw comes, and the Snow Man longs for the stove» 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/977-pg27200-part188/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:977-pg27200-part188:t11:1
# text = is the window freezing or thawing when the snowman is stuck?
1	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	thawing	thaw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	snowman	snowman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the window freezing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **thaw** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **stick** | present · passive |  | the snowman |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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thawing, all water drops

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:977-pg27200-part188:t11:o1:1
# text = thawing, all water drops
1	thawing	thaw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thaw** | gerund |  | all water drops |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient drop=Result |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
freezing, all frost fern

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:977-pg27200-part188:t11:o2:1
# text = freezing, all frost fern
1	freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	fern	fern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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freezing, the glass covered with ice flowers all over

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:977-pg27200-part188:t11:o3:1
# text = freezing, the glass covered with ice flowers all over
1	freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	over	over	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle |  | the glass *not said here* |  |  |  | with ice flowers; over *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme |

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

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freezing, all ice flowers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:977-pg27200-part188:t11:o4:1
# text = freezing, all ice flowers
1	freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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