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title: What did the forest mice declare regarding the preparation of the so… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sa… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the forest mice declare regarding the preparation of the soup, as reported by the first traveller? Exam question 4 of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» of the b
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1…

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What did the forest mice declare regarding the preparation of the soup, as reported by the first traveller?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** forest mice · **What happens:** do, declare, regard, report, prepare · **To what, where:** soup

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» 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/989-pg27200-part200/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:e4:1
# text = What did the forest mice declare regarding the preparation of the soup, as reported by the first traveller?
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	5	det	_	_
4	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	declare	declare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	preparation	preparation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | present | the forest mice |  |  |  |  | regard the preparation of the soup | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **report** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the first traveller | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **prepare** |  |  | the soup |  |  |  |  | nom preparation «act 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 {#o1}

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that no mouse could solve it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:e4:o1:1
# text = that no mouse could solve it
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	solve	solve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **solve** | could | no mouse | it |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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that the soup was far too hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:e4:o2:1
# text = that the soup was far too hard
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the soup |  |  |  |  | far, hard *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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that the problem would never be solved

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:e4:o3:1
# text = that the problem would never be solved
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	solved	solve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **solve** | would · passive |  | the problem |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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nothing at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:989-pg27200-part200:e4:o4:1
# text = nothing at all
1	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	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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