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title: Dunno if you clocked it, but what did Kay hold out to catch the snow… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dunno if you clocked it, but what did Kay hold out to catch the snowflakes? Test 7 · ★ 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 pragma
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 190: Kay is c…

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Dunno if you clocked it, but what did Kay hold out to catch the snowflakes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Kay · **What happens:** clock, hold out, catch · **To what, where:** it, snowflakes

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t7:1
# text = Dunno if you clocked it, but what did Kay hold out to catch the snowflakes?
1	Dunno	dunno	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	clocked	clock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
9	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	snowflakes	snowflake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clock** | past | you | it |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value |
| 2 | **hold out** | past · do-support | Kay |  |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 3 | **catch** | to-infinitive | Kay *not said here* | the snowflakes |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snowflake=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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his mitten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t7:o1:1
# text = his mitten
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mitten	mitten	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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his red cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t7:o2:1
# text = his red cap
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cap	cap	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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the tail of his blue coat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t7:o3:1
# text = the tail of his blue coat
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the sleeve of his grey coat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t7:o4:1
# text = the sleeve of his grey coat
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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