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title: Mega, what did he hide under to sneak out? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mega, what did he hide under to sneak out? Test 10 · ★ 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 dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the du…

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Mega, what did he hide under to sneak out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mega · **What happens:** hide, sneak out

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This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t10:1
# text = Mega, what did he hide under to sneak out?
1	Mega	Mega	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	sneak	sneak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past · do-support | Mega |  |  |  |  | Mega *vocative* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 2 | **sneak out** | to-infinitive | Mega *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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burdock leaves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t10:o1:1
# text = burdock leaves
1	burdock	burdock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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tall nettles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t10:o2:1
# text = tall nettles
1	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	nettles	nettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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wet reeds grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t10:o3:1
# text = wet reeds grass
1	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	grass	grass	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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a heap of burdock leaves by the wall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t10:o4:1
# text = a heap of burdock leaves by the wall
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	burdock	burdock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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