---
title: ngl, what did the grandmother do in the buttercup story? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, what did the grandmother do in the buttercup story? Test 13 · ★ 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 and pragmatics of the q
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/981-pg27200-part192/t13/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/981-pg27200-part192/) / t13

# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda ru…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ngl, what did the grandmother do in the buttercup story?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ngl · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** grandmother, buttercup story

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 13 · ★ 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. 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:t13:1
# text = ngl, what did the grandmother do in the buttercup story?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	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	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	buttercup	buttercup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | ngl | the grandmother |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | present | ngl *not said here* |  |  | the buttercup story |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
sang to the flowers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:t13:o1:1
# text = sang to the flowers
1	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past |  |  | the flowers |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to flower=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
knitted warm socks beside the fire all day long

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:t13:o2:1
# text = knitted warm socks beside the fire all day long
1	knitted	knit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knit** | participle |  | warm socks |  | the fire | day |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sock=Product |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
sat in her big chair and told a long tale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:t13:o3:1
# text = sat in her big chair and told a long tale
1	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  |  |  | her big chair |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  | a long tale |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
sat in her arm chair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:981-pg27200-part192:t13:o4:1
# text = sat in her arm chair
1	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  |  |  | her arm chair |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen…, test 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/981-pg27200-part192/t12/)
- next →: [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen…, exam 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/981-pg27200-part192/e1/)
- ↑ back to [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 192: Gerda runs from the garden, hears the flowers' tales, and meets a crow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/981-pg27200-part192/)