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title: Yo, what did Kay keep saying to mess with Grandma when she told her… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what did Kay keep saying to mess with Grandma when she told her tales? Test 4 · ★ 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 pragmat
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 190: Kay is c…

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Yo, what did Kay keep saying to mess with Grandma when she told her tales?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Kay · **What happens:** keep, say, mess, tell · **To what, where:** tales · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t4:1
# text = Yo, what did Kay keep saying to mess with Grandma when she told her tales?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	mess	mess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past · do-support | Kay |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Kay *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **mess** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with Grandma | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Kay | Kay's tales |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |
| 5 | **tell** |  | Kay |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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"why"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t4:o1:1
# text = "why"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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"so" every time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t4:o2:1
# text = "so" every time
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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"but" every time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t4:o3:1
# text = "but" every time
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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"but" over and over again without stopping at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t4:o4:1
# text = "but" over and over again without stopping at all
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | gerund |  |  |  | all |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=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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