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title: Bro, what did the snowflakes look like through the burning-glass? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did the snowflakes look like through the burning-glass? Test 8 · ★ 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 th
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 190: Kay is c…

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Bro, what did the snowflakes look like through the burning-glass?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** snowflakes · **What happens:** do, look

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This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t8:1
# text = Bro, what did the snowflakes look like through the burning-glass?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	snowflakes	snowflake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | Bro *vocative* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | present | the snowflakes |  |  |  |  | like the burning glass | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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snowy birds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t8:o1:1
# text = snowy birds
1	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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flowers or glittering stars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t8:o2:1
# text = flowers or glittering stars
1	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glitter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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small bells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t8:o3:1
# text = small bells
1	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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white feathers or pale moons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:979-pg27200-part190:t8:o4:1
# text = white feathers or pale moons
1	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	moons	moon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	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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