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title: Be honest, how strong did the reindeer want Gerda to be? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics
description: Be honest, how strong did the reindeer want Gerda to be? Test 9 · ★ 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 the q
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 195: Gerda ri…

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Be honest, how strong did the reindeer want Gerda to be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** reindeer, Gerda · **What happens:** be, want · **To what, where:** Gerda

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:984-pg27200-part195:t9:1
# text = Be honest, how strong did the reindeer want Gerda to be?
1	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	cop	_	_
2	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **want** | past · do-support | the reindeer | Gerda |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Gerda *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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as strong as twelve giant men of the north

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:984-pg27200-part195:t9:o1:1
# text = as strong as twelve giant men of the north
1	as	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
as strong as twelve men and a horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:984-pg27200-part195:t9:o2:1
# text = as strong as twelve men and a horse
1	as	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
as strong as ten men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:984-pg27200-part195:t9:o3:1
# text = as strong as ten men
1	as	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
as strong as twelve men

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:984-pg27200-part195:t9:o4:1
# text = as strong as twelve men
1	as	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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

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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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