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title: Lmao, what did the old neighbour first guess the egg was? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lmao, what did the old neighbour first guess the egg was? Test 13 · ★ 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 pr
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the du…

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Lmao, what did the old neighbour first guess the egg was?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Lmao · **What happens:** be

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This is test 13 · ★ 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t13:1
# text = Lmao, what did the old neighbour first guess the egg was?
1	Lmao	Lmao	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
9	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · do-support | Lmao |  |  |  |  | first, guess *property* | tree rules |

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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 turkey's egg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t13:o1:1
# text = a turkey's egg
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	turkey	turkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	egg	egg	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 hen's egg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t13:o2:1
# text = a hen's egg
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	egg	egg	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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a peacock's egg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t13:o3:1
# text = a peacock's egg
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	egg	egg	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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an ostrich's egg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t13:o4:1
# text = an ostrich's egg
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	egg	egg	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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