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title: What opinion did Father Snail express regarding the quality of their… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast… · tree and pragmatics
description: What opinion did Father Snail express regarding the quality of their present dwelling? Exam question 3 of lesson 300 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the soldier is found again in a garden, then The Happy Family begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depend
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the sol…

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What opinion did Father Snail express regarding the quality of their present dwelling?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** opinion, present · **What happens:** do, regard, dwell · **To what, where:** Father express

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 300 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the soldier is found again in a garden, then The Happy Family begins» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/300-pg1597-part27/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:e3:1
# text = What opinion did Father Snail express regarding the quality of their present dwelling?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Snail	Snail	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	express	express	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | opinion | Father express |  |  |  | regard the quality of their present | tree rules |
| 2 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dwell** | gerund | their present *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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Ours is best

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:e3:o1:1
# text = Ours is best
1	Ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Ours |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing beats a dry hedge bank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:e3:o2:1
# text = Nothing beats a dry hedge bank
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
2	beats	beat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | present | Nothing | a dry hedge bank |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bank=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No place can be better than ours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:e3:o3:1
# text = No place can be better than ours
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | no place |  |  |  |  | than ours; good *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Our house is the finest of all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:e3:o4:1
# text = Our house is the finest of all
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Our house |  |  |  |  | of all; fine *property* | tree rules |

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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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