--- title: By what means did the duckling leave the duckyard during the night? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckl… · tree and pragmatics description: By what means did the duckling leave the duckyard during the night? Exam question 2 of lesson 1148 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the duckling is bullied, flees to the moor, survives the hunt and reaches a cottage» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1148-pg3027-part14/e2/) [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/1148-pg3027-part14/) / e2 # Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the du… By what means did the duckling leave the duckyard during the night? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** duckling · **What happens:** mean, leave · **To what, where:** duckyard This is exam question 2 of lesson 1148 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the duckling is bullied, flees to the moor, survives the hunt and reaches a cottage» 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/1148-pg3027-part14/#e2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:e2:1 # text = By what means did the duckling leave the duckyard during the night? 1 By by ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 obl _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 duckling duckling NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 duckyard duckyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 during during ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **leave** | past · do-support | the duckling | the duckyard | | | night | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent duckyard=Theme by what=Location | 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} through an open door ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:e2:o1:1 # text = through an open door 1 through through ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} through an open door while everyone slept ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:e2:o2:1 # text = through an open door while everyone slept 1 through through ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 while while SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 7 nsubj _ _ 7 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep** | past | everyone | a open door *not said here* | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} over the wall at dusk ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:e2:o3:1 # text = over the wall at dusk 1 over over ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 dusk dusk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} under the old fence ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:e2:o4:1 # text = under the old fence 1 under under ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 fence fence 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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