--- title: Ngl, what nearly happened to the verses? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen… · tree and pragmatics description: Ngl, what nearly happened to the verses? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 986 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come home grown up, and the Flower is thrown away» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/986-pg27200-part197/t8/) [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/986-pg27200-part197/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come… Ngl, what nearly happened to the verses? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ngl · **What happens:** happen This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 986 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen: Gerda and Kay come home grown up, and the Flower is thrown away» 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/986-pg27200-part197/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:t8:1 # text = Ngl, what nearly happened to the verses? 1 Ngl Ngl PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ _ 4 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 verses verse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | Ngl | | | | | to the verses; nearly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} They were burnt to ashes ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:t8:o1:1 # text = They were burnt to ashes 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 burnt burnt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burnt** | past · passive | | They | | | | to ashes | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} They were lost ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:t8:o2:1 # text = They were lost 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | past · passive | | They | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ### Option 3 {#o3} Nothing happened ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:t8:o3:1 # text = Nothing happened 1 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 2 nsubj _ _ 2 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | Nothing | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} They were torn into bits ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:986-pg27200-part197:t8:o4:1 # text = They were torn into bits 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 torn tear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tear** | past · passive | | They | | | | into bits *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into bit=Result | **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. 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