--- title: fam, what do the snails eat, fr? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast… · tree and pragmatics description: fam, what do the snails eat, fr? Test 6 · ★ 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 dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/300-pg1597-part27/t6/) [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 Steadfast…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/300-pg1597-part27/) / t6 # Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier: the sol… fam, what do the snails eat, fr? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fam · **What happens:** be, eat · **To what, where:** fr This is test 6 · ★ 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. 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/#t6). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:t6:1 # text = fam, what do the snails eat, fr? 1 fam fam NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 obj _ _ 4 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 snails snail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 fr fr NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | present | fam | fr | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fr=Patient | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} dock-leaves ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:t6:o1:1 # text = dock-leaves 1 dock dock NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} dock-leaves and the sweet burdock stems ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:t6:o2:1 # text = dock-leaves and the sweet burdock stems 1 dock dock NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 burdock burdock NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 stems stem NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} whatever soft green leaves they find in the wet grass ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:t6:o3:1 # text = whatever soft green leaves they find in the wet grass 1 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 obj _ _ 2 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present | soft green leaves | whatever | | the wet grass | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic | ### Option 4 {#o4} rotten fruit ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:300-pg1597-part27:t6:o4:1 # text = rotten fruit 1 rotten rotten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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