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title: Lol, how many ducklings came out of the eggs? — Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lol, how many ducklings came out of the eggs? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1712 «Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, part 1: the Queen is tricked into the pond and becomes a White Duck» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option;
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# Test 12 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, part 1: the Queen is t…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Lol, how many ducklings came out of the eggs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** many ducklings · **What happens:** come out · **To what, where:** eggs

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1712 «Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, part 1: the Queen is tricked into the pond and becomes a White Duck» 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/1712-pg640-part36/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1712-pg640-part36:t12:1
# text = Lol, how many ducklings came out of the eggs?
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ducklings	duckling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | many ducklings | the eggs |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient egg=Result |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Two little fluffy ones and a drake, who swam off across the pond together

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1712-pg640-part36:t12:o1:1
# text = Two little fluffy ones and a drake, who swam off across the pond together
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	drake	drake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	across	across	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim off** | past | Two little fluffy ones and a drake |  |  | the pond |  | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across pond=Trajectory |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Two little fluffy ones and a drake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1712-pg640-part36:t12:o2:1
# text = Two little fluffy ones and a drake
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	drake	drake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Two fluffy ones and a grey hen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1712-pg640-part36:t12:o3:1
# text = Two fluffy ones and a grey hen
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Two little fluffy ones and a drake, all of them very ugly indeed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1712-pg640-part36:t12:o4:1
# text = Two little fluffy ones and a drake, all of them very ugly indeed
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	drake	drake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
14	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
```

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

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