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title: Which term best characterises the narrator's attitude toward the acc… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dulla… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which term best characterises the narrator's attitude toward the account of the events that the newspaper printed? Exam question 3 of lesson 820 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Princess with clay, a crow and a wooden shoe» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with t
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Pr…

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Which term best characterises the narrator's attitude toward the account of the events that the newspaper printed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** term · **What happens:** characteris, print, account · **To what, where:** attitude, events

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 820 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Jack the Dullard: Jack wins the Princess with clay, a crow and a wooden shoe» 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/820-pg27200-part31/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:820-pg27200-part31:e3:1
# text = Which term best characterises the narrator's attitude toward the account of the events that the newspaper printed?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	2	advmod	_	_
4	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	attitude	attitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **characteris** | present | which term | the narrator's attitude |  |  |  | toward the account of the events | tree rules |
| 2 | **print** | participle · passive |  | the events |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **account** |  |  | the events |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Sceptical, as to its reliability

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:820-pg27200-part31:e3:o1:1
# text = Sceptical, as to its reliability
1	Sceptical	sceptical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	reliability	reliability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Indifferent, as to its origin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:820-pg27200-part31:e3:o2:1
# text = Indifferent, as to its origin
1	Indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Trusting

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:820-pg27200-part31:e3:o3:1
# text = Trusting
1	Trusting	trust	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Confident, as to its accuracy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:820-pg27200-part31:e3:o4:1
# text = Confident, as to its accuracy
1	Confident	confident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	accuracy	accuracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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