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title: Bro, where did the duckling finally land? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, where did the duckling finally land? Test 14 · ★ 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 and of
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# Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the d…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Bro, where did the duckling finally land?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** duckling

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This is test 14 · ★ 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/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:t14:1
# text = Bro, where did the duckling finally land?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	duckling	duckling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the duckling |  |  |  | Bro *vocative*; land *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duckling=Eventuality |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In a large park where the swans were gliding over the water in the early morning sunshine

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:t14:o1:1
# text = In a large park where the swans were gliding over the water in the early morning sunshine
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	gliding	glide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glide** | past · progressive | the swans |  |  | the water |  | in the early morning sunshine | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme over water=Source in sunshine=Trajectory |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In a garden with some green trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:t14:o2:1
# text = In a garden with some green trees
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In a huge garden full of blooming trees and a little stream running through the middle of it

<!-- fold The tree, 18 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:t14:o3:1
# text = In a huge garden full of blooming trees and a little stream running through the middle of it
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bloom** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | a little stream *not said here* |  |  | the middle of middle |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through middle=Trajectory |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
In a big garden with blooming apple trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:t14:o4:1
# text = In a big garden with blooming apple trees
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bloom** | gerund | a big garden *not said here* | apple trees |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |

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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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