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title: What reason does the crow give for believing that Kay has forgotten… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: What reason does the crow give for believing that Kay has forgotten Gerda? Exam question 2 of lesson 981 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda runs from the garden, hears the flowers' tales, and meets a crow» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree a
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda ru…

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What reason does the crow give for believing that Kay has forgotten Gerda?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** reason, crow, Kay · **What happens:** do, give, believe, forget · **To what, where:** Gerda · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 981 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda runs from the garden, hears the flowers' tales, and meets a crow» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/981-pg27200-part192/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:e2:1
# text = What reason does the crow give for believing that Kay has forgotten Gerda?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	believing	believe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
13	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | what reason |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | the crow |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **believe** | gerund | the crow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **forget** | present · perfect | Kay | Gerda |  |  |  |  | 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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his coldness to Gerda

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:e2:o1:1
# text = his coldness to Gerda
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	coldness	coldness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the princess's crown

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:e2:o2:1
# text = the princess's crown
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crown** |  | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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his attachment to the princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:e2:o3:1
# text = his attachment to the princess
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	attachment	attachment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attach** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  | to the princess | nom attachment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the old sled he left

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:e2:o4:1
# text = the old sled he left
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sled	sled	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | he | the old sled *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sled=Theme |

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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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