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title: So the roses just sank into the ground? That's mental. — Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: So the roses just sank into the ground? That's mental. Test 3 · ★ of lesson 980 «Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 191: Gerda drifts in a boat to an old woman's garden, where the roses vanish and she forgets Kay» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 191: Gerda drifts i…

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So the roses just sank into the ground? That's mental.

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** roses, That · **What happens:** sink, be · **To what, where:** ground

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 980 «Andersen's Tales, The Snow Queen, part 191: Gerda drifts in a boat to an old woman's garden, where the roses vanish and she forgets Kay» 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/980-pg27200-part191/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* So the roses just sank into the ground?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:980-pg27200-part191:t3:1
# text = So the roses just sank into the ground?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past | the roses |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* That's mental.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:980-pg27200-part191:t3:2
# text = That's mental.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | mental *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, the old lady planted them all in a secret garden out back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:980-pg27200-part191:t3:o1:1
# text = Nah, the old lady planted them all in a secret garden out back
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	planted	plant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plant** | past | the old lady | them *= they* |  | a secret garden |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in garden=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yeah, the old lady made them vanish into the earth so Gerda forgot them

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:980-pg27200-part191:t3:o2:1
# text = Yeah, the old lady made them vanish into the earth so Gerda forgot them
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	vanish	vanish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the old lady | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **vanish** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **forget** | past | Gerda | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, the old lady made them vanish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:980-pg27200-part191:t3:o3:1
# text = Yeah, the old lady made them vanish
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	vanish	vanish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the old lady | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **vanish** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, she just watered them, mate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:980-pg27200-part191:t3:o4:1
# text = Nah, she just watered them, mate
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	watered	water	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **water** | past | she | them *= they* |  |  |  | mate *vocative* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination |

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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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