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title: Oi, what were Kay and Gerda gawping at when the church clock went tw… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, what were Kay and Gerda gawping at when the church clock went twelve? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 979 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 190: Kay is carried off by the Snow Queen while Gerda searches for him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 190: Kay is c…

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Oi, what were Kay and Gerda gawping at when the church clock went twelve?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** church clock · **What happens:** be, gawp, go · **To what, where:** Kay, twelve

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 979 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 190: Kay is carried off by the Snow Queen while Gerda searches for him» 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/979-pg27200-part190/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t1:1
# text = Oi, what were Kay and Gerda gawping at when the church clock went twelve?
1	Oi	oi	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	gawping	gawp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
15	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Kay and Gerda |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gawp** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | past | the church clock | twelve |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location twelve=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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a heavy book of foreign maps and drawings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t1:o1:1
# text = a heavy book of foreign maps and drawings
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	maps	map	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	drawings	drawing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a picture of the church

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t1:o2:1
# text = a picture of the church
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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a book of animal pictures

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t1:o3:1
# text = a book of animal pictures
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a tall tower with a golden clock face

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t1:o4:1
# text = a tall tower with a golden clock face
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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