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title: so the palace was super strict, yeah? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: so the palace was super strict, yeah? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 982 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 193: the crowds fail at the palace, and Gerda is smuggled into the prince's bedroom» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 193: the crow…

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so the palace was super strict, yeah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** palace · **What happens:** be

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 982 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 193: the crowds fail at the palace, and Gerda is smuggled into the prince's bedroom» 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/982-pg27200-part193/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:982-pg27200-part193:t13:1
# text = so the palace was super strict, yeah?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	super	super	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	strict	strict	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the palace |  |  |  |  | strict, super *property* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, the guards and servants made everyone nervous, and the halls were quiet except for the princess

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:982-pg27200-part193:t13:o1:1
# text = yeah, the guards and servants made everyone nervous, and the halls were quiet except for the princess
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	_
9	nervous	nervous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
16	except	except	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the guards and servants | everyone |  |  |  | nervous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everyone=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | the halls |  |  |  |  | except the princess; quiet *property* | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, the guards and servants made everyone nervous

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:982-pg27200-part193:t13:o2:1
# text = yeah, the guards and servants made everyone nervous
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	_
9	nervous	nervous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the guards and servants | everyone |  |  |  | nervous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everyone=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, the guards and servants made everyone nervous, so the crows and the children all kept to the back stairs

<!-- fold The tree, 20 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:982-pg27200-part193:t13:o3:1
# text = yeah, the guards and servants made everyone nervous, so the crows and the children all kept to the back stairs
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	_
9	nervous	nervous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	all	all	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the guards and servants | everyone |  |  |  | nervous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset everyone=Product |
| 2 | **keep** | past | the crows and the children |  |  |  |  | to the back stairs; all *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nope, the servants were kind and quite relaxed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:982-pg27200-part193:t13:o4:1
# text = nope, the servants were kind and quite relaxed
1	nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	relaxed	relaxed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the servants |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the servants *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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