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title: how'd the babies get out of the eggs, did the shells just pop — Andersen's Tales, The Ugly Duckling, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: how'd the babies get out of the eggs, did the shells just pop Test 9 · ★ 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 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 1: the ducklings…

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how'd the babies get out of the eggs, did the shells just pop

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** babies, shells · **What happens:** get out, pop · **To what, where:** eggs

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1011-pg27200-part222:t9:1
# text = how'd the babies get out of the eggs, did the shells just pop
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	pop	pop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get out** | present | the babies | the eggs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pop** | past · do-support | the shells |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 {#o1}

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they just popped

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1011-pg27200-part222:t9:o1:1
# text = they just popped
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	popped	pop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pop** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the mum helped them out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1011-pg27200-part222:t9:o2:1
# text = the mum helped them out
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help out** | past | the mum | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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one by one the shells cracked open

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1011-pg27200-part222:t9:o3:1
# text = one by one the shells cracked open
1	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cracked	crack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crack** | past | the one shells |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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they hatched slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1011-pg27200-part222:t9:o4:1
# text = they hatched slowly
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hatched	hatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hatch** | past | they |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=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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