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title: Was the snail house wicked, or just okay? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Fami… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the snail house wicked, or just okay? Test 3 · ★ 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 option; Mova's choice was 
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family: two old snails f…

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Was the snail house wicked, or just okay?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** snail house · **What happens:** be

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This is test 3 · ★ 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. 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:846-pg27200-part57:t3:1
# text = Was the snail house wicked, or just okay?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the snail house |  |  |  |  | wicked *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the snail house *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Totally fine, they had houses from birth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:846-pg27200-part57:t3:o1:1
# text = Totally fine, they had houses from birth
1	Totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | they | houses |  | birth |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Totally normal, they lived in shells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:846-pg27200-part57:t3:o2:1
# text = Totally normal, they lived in shells
1	Totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | they |  |  | shells |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shell=Location |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Not wicked at all, they had their own houses from birth and never needed to borrow one

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:846-pg27200-part57:t3:o3:1
# text = Not wicked at all, they had their own houses from birth and never needed to borrow one
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	borrow	borrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | they | their own houses |  | birth |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **need** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **borrow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | one |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Mostly okay, though they bullied the black snails who had no houses at all

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:846-pg27200-part57:t3:o4:1
# text = Mostly okay, though they bullied the black snails who had no houses at all
1	Mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	okay	okay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bullied	bully	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	snails	snail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bully** | past | they |  | the black snails |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snail=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **have** | past | the black snails | no houses |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |

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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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