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title: What did the angel affirm concerning the critic's contribution? — Andersen, Something, part 199: the cri… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the angel affirm concerning the critic's contribution? Exam question 3 of lesson 988 «Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's gate, and old Margaret's burning bed saves the skaters» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of t
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's…

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What did the angel affirm concerning the critic's contribution?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** angel, critic · **What happens:** do, affirm, concern, contribute · **To what, where:** contribution

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 988 «Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's gate, and old Margaret's burning bed saves the skaters» 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/988-pg27200-part199/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:988-pg27200-part199:e3:1
# text = What did the angel affirm concerning the critic's contribution?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	affirm	affirm	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	critic	critic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	contribution	contribution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **affirm** | present | the angel |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund | the angel *not said here* | the critic's contribution |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus contribution=Experiencer |
| 4 | **contribute** |  | the critic |  |  |  |  |  | nom contribution «act transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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That he had accomplished nothing whatsoever

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:988-pg27200-part199:e3:o1:1
# text = That he had accomplished nothing whatsoever
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
6	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accomplish** | past · perfect | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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That he had done very little good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:988-pg27200-part199:e3:o2:1
# text = That he had done very little good
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · perfect · passive |  | That |  |  |  | little *obl*; good *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He built nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:988-pg27200-part199:e3:o3:1
# text = He built nothing
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | He | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing done

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:988-pg27200-part199:e3:o4:1
# text = Nothing done
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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