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title: Lol, who got shot dead by the guns on the moor? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckl… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, who got shot dead by the guns on the moor? Test 6 · ★ 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
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# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the du…

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Lol, who got shot dead by the guns on the moor?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** guns · **What happens:** shoot

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t6:1
# text = Lol, who got shot dead by the guns on the moor?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	shot	shoot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	guns	gun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | past · passive | the guns on the moor |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 {#o1}

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the two young ducks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t6:o1:1
# text = the two young ducks
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ducks	duck	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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the hunters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t6:o2:1
# text = the hunters
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hunters	hunter	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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the old goose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t6:o3:1
# text = the old goose
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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the two young ganders

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1148-pg3027-part14:t6:o4:1
# text = the two young ganders
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ganders	gander	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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