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title: Wait, what does the reindeer reckon the Finland woman can tie? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what does the reindeer reckon the Finland woman can tie? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 984 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 195: Gerda rides the reindeer north to Finland and is left alone in the snow» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 195: Gerda ri…

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Wait, what does the reindeer reckon the Finland woman can tie?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, reindeer, Finland woman · **What happens:** wait, reckon, tie

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 984 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 195: Gerda rides the reindeer north to Finland and is left alone in the snow» 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/984-pg27200-part195/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:984-pg27200-part195:t8:1
# text = Wait, what does the reindeer reckon the Finland woman can tie?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Finland	Finland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reckon** | present · do-support | the reindeer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tie** | can | the Finland woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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the tides of the land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:984-pg27200-part195:t8:o1:1
# text = the tides of the land
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tide** |  | the land |  |  |  |  |  | nom tide «event intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the storms of the north

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:984-pg27200-part195:t8:o2:1
# text = the storms of the north
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **storm** |  | the north |  |  |  |  |  | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:984-pg27200-part195:t8:o3:1
# text = the wind
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the winds of the world

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:984-pg27200-part195:t8:o4:1
# text = the winds of the world
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wind** |  |  | the world |  |  |  |  | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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