--- title: Which egg did the mother duck remain seated upon at the beginning of… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckl… · tree and pragmatics description: Which egg did the mother duck remain seated upon at the beginning of the passage? Exam question 1 of lesson 1012 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 223: the ugly duckling hatches, is scorned, and flees to a moor» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1012-pg27200-part223/e1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckl…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1012-pg27200-part223/) / e1 # Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 223: the u… Which egg did the mother duck remain seated upon at the beginning of the passage? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** egg, mother duck · **What happens:** do, remain, seat, begin · **To what, where:** mother duck, passage This is exam question 1 of lesson 1012 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 223: the ugly duckling hatches, is scorned, and flees to a moor» 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/1012-pg27200-part223/#e1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1012-pg27200-part223:e1:1 # text = Which egg did the mother duck remain seated upon at the beginning of the passage? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 remain remain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 8 seated seat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 9 upon upon ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 beginning beginning NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | which egg | the mother duck | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Eventuality | | 2 | **remain** | present | the mother duck *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **seat** | participle | | the mother duck *not said here* | | | upon the beginning of the passage | | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | | 4 | **begin** | | | the passage | | | | | nom beginning «event transitive»: of=patient | 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} one egg ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1012-pg27200-part223:e1:o1:1 # text = one egg 1 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} the egg ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1012-pg27200-part223:e1:o2:1 # text = the egg 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} the spotted egg ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1012-pg27200-part223:e1:o3:1 # text = the spotted egg 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 spotted spot VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spot** | participle | | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} the largest egg ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1012-pg27200-part223:e1:o4:1 # text = the largest egg 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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