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title: What caused the sudden alarm among the wild geese and the sporting d… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckl… · tree and pragmatics
description: What caused the sudden alarm among the wild geese and the sporting dogs in the rushes? Exam question 4 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 tr
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 223: the u…

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What caused the sudden alarm among the wild geese and the sporting dogs in the rushes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** cause, sport · **To what, where:** sudden alarm, rushes

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1012-pg27200-part223:e4:1
# text = What caused the sudden alarm among the wild geese and the sporting dogs in the rushes?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	caused	cause	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	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sporting	sport	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rushes	rush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | past |  | the sudden alarm |  | the rushes |  | among the wild geese and the sporting dogs | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition alarm=Patient |
| 2 | **sport** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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the hunters' dogs barking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1012-pg27200-part223:e4:o1:1
# text = the hunters' dogs barking
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bark** | gerund | the hunters's dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the discharge of the sportsmen's guns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1012-pg27200-part223:e4:o2:1
# text = the discharge of the sportsmen's guns
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	discharge	discharge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sportsmen	sportsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discharge** |  |  | the sportsmen's guns |  |  |  |  | nom discharge «event transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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loud guns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1012-pg27200-part223:e4:o3:1
# text = loud guns
1	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the gunshots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1012-pg27200-part223:e4:o4:1
# text = the gunshots
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gunshots	gunshot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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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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