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title: Fr, who was it crying "Croak, croak" on the ferns? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fr, who was it crying "Croak, croak" on the ferns? Test 9 · ★ 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 questio
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the d…

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Fr, who was it crying "Croak, croak" on the ferns?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Fr · **What happens:** cry · **To what, where:** Croak, ferns

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:t9:1
# text = Fr, who was it crying "Croak, croak" on the ferns?
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Croak	croak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	croak	croak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ferns	fern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past · progressive | Fr | Croak and croak |  | the ferns |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent croak=Theme on fern=Destination |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The raven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:t9:o1:1
# text = The raven
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	raven	raven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Crow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:t9:o2:1
# text = Crow
1	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	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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The old grey goose from the farm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:t9:o3:1
# text = The old grey goose from the farm
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Owl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1013-pg27200-part224:t9:o4:1
# text = Owl
1	Owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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