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title: Which creatures did the snails consider vulgar and conceited? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Fami… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which creatures did the snails consider vulgar and conceited? Exam question 4 of lesson 846 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails find a wife for their adopted son» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails f…

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Which creatures did the snails consider vulgar and conceited?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** creatures, snails · **What happens:** do, consider

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 846 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails find a wife for their adopted son» 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/846-pg27200-part57/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:846-pg27200-part57:e4:1
# text = Which creatures did the snails consider vulgar and conceited?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	snails	snail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	consider	consider	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	vulgar	vulgar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	conceited	conceited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which creatures |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **consider** | present | the snails |  |  |  |  | vulgar *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |

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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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The black snails without houses, who were thought to be lowly and rude by everyone

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:846-pg27200-part57:e4:o1:1
# text = The black snails without houses, who were thought to be lowly and rude by everyone
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	snails	snail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	lowly	lowly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · passive | everyone | the black snails without houses |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  | lowly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The black snails without houses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:846-pg27200-part57:e4:o2:1
# text = The black snails without houses
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	snails	snail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The gnats and glow-worms who flew about the garden in the rain every evening

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:846-pg27200-part57:e4:o3:1
# text = The gnats and glow-worms who flew about the garden in the rain every evening
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gnats	gnat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | glow worms |  |  | the rain | evening | about the garden | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent about garden=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The white snails with houses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:846-pg27200-part57:e4:o4:1
# text = The white snails with houses
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	snails	snail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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