--- title: Be real, how did the peasant break up the ice? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckl… · tree and pragmatics description: Be real, how did the peasant break up the ice? Test 11 · ★ 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 tree and pragmatics of the question a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1013-pg27200-part224/t11/) [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/1013-pg27200-part224/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the d… Be real, how did the peasant break up the ice? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, peasant · **What happens:** be, break up · **To what, where:** ice This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:t11:1 # text = Be real, how did the peasant break up the ice? 1 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 2 cop _ _ 2 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 up up ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | real *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **break up** | past · do-support | the peasant | the ice | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=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} Using a long wooden pole ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:t11:o1:1 # text = Using a long wooden pole 1 Using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 pole pole NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | gerund | | a long wooden pole | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} With a heavy iron bar ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:t11:o2:1 # text = With a heavy iron bar 1 With with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 iron iron NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 bar bar NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} With a stick ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:t11:o3:1 # text = With a stick 1 With with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} With his wooden shoe ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:t11:o4:1 # text = With his wooden shoe 1 With with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 shoe shoe 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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