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title: Which season immediately succeeded the duckling's departure from the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which season immediately succeeded the duckling's departure from the cottage? Exam question 3 of lesson 1013 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the duckling survives the hunters, a cottage, and a freezing winter» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tr
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the d…

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Which season immediately succeeded the duckling's departure from the cottage?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** season, duckling · **What happens:** succeed, depart · **To what, where:** departure, cottage

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1013 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the duckling survives the hunters, a cottage, and a freezing winter» 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/1013-pg27200-part224/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:e3:1
# text = Which season immediately succeeded the duckling's departure from the cottage?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	duckling	duckling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | past | which season | the duckling's departure |  | the cottage |  | immediately *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **depart** |  | the duckling |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=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 {#o1}

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A cold and frosty early winter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:e3:o1:1
# text = A cold and frosty early winter
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	frosty	frosty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Autumn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:e3:o2:1
# text = Autumn
1	Autumn	Autumn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Snow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:e3:o3:1
# text = Snow
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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 late summer months

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:e3:o4:1
# text = The late summer months
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	months	month	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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