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title: Ngl, where did the poor duckling end up walking to? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, where did the poor duckling end up walking to? Test 11 · ★ 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 pragmati
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the du…

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Ngl, where did the poor duckling end up walking to?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ngl, poor duckling · **What happens:** do, end up, walk

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t11:1
# text = Ngl, where did the poor duckling end up walking to?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	duckling	duckling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Ngl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **end up** | present | the poor duckling |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **walk** | gerund | Ngl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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a tumbledown cottage

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t11:o1:1
# text = a tumbledown cottage
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tumbledown	tumbledown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cottage	cottage	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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a tumbledown cottage at the edge of the marsh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t11:o2:1
# text = a tumbledown cottage at the edge of the marsh
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tumbledown	tumbledown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	marsh	marsh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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an empty old house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t11:o3:1
# text = an empty old house
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	house	house	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 tumbledown cottage with a broken door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t11:o4:1
# text = a tumbledown cottage with a broken door
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tumbledown	tumbledown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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