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title: Mate, what did folks reckon Kay was when he copied everyone? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did folks reckon Kay was when he copied everyone? Test 6 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the que
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# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 190: Kay is c…

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Mate, what did folks reckon Kay was when he copied everyone?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** folks, Mate · **What happens:** reckon, be · **To what, where:** Mate

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t6:1
# text = Mate, what did folks reckon Kay was when he copied everyone?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	copied	copy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | past · do-support | folks | Mate |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Theme kay=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | past | Mate |  |  |  |  | copy *property* | tree rules |

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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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a cheeky lad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t6:o1:1
# text = a cheeky lad
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a clever boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t6:o2:1
# text = a clever boy
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boy	boy	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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a remarkable genius

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t6:o3:1
# text = a remarkable genius
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a proper smart lad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t6:o4:1
# text = a proper smart lad
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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