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title: did the mum duck get a visitor at all? she was like, gutted — Andersen's Tales, The Ugly Duckling, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: did the mum duck get a visitor at all? she was like, gutted Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1011 «Andersen's Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 1: the ducklings hatch under the burdock leaves» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 1: the ducklings…

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did the mum duck get a visitor at all? she was like, gutted

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** get, gut · **To what, where:** mum duck, all

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1011 «Andersen's Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 1: the ducklings hatch under the burdock leaves» 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/1011-pg27200-part222/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1011-pg27200-part222:t10:1
# text = did the mum duck get a visitor at all? she was like, gutted
1	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	visitor	visitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	gutted	gut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present |  | the mum duck |  | all |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent visitor=Theme at all=Asset |
| 2 | **gut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
she hardly ever had any visitors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1011-pg27200-part222:t10:o1:1
# text = she hardly ever had any visitors
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | she | any visitors |  |  | ever | hardly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
one or two came, but rarely

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1011-pg27200-part222:t10:o2:1
# text = one or two came, but rarely
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	conj	_	_
7	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | one |  |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
she hardly ever had visitors, though the stork did drop in once on a long walk

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1011-pg27200-part222:t10:o3:1
# text = she hardly ever had visitors, though the stork did drop in once on a long walk
1	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	visitors	visitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | participle | she | visitors |  |  | ever | hardly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Patient |
| 2 | **drop in** | past · do-support | the stork |  |  | a long walk |  | once *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on walk=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a fox came by once, nearby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1011-pg27200-part222:t10:o4:1
# text = a fox came by once, nearby
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a fox |  |  |  |  | nearby *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by once=Location |

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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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