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title: dude, did Hans drown in a pond or what? — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics
description: dude, did Hans drown in a pond or what? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 2038 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Devoted Friend: Hans drowns in the storm, and the Miller only frets about his wheelbarrow» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 7 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Devoted Friend: Hans…

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dude, did Hans drown in a pond or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Hans · **What happens:** drown · **To what, where:** pond

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 2038 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Devoted Friend: Hans drowns in the storm, and the Miller only frets about his wheelbarrow» 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/2038-pg902-part8/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2038-pg902-part8:t7:1
# text = dude, did Hans drown in a pond or what?
1	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Hans	han	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	drown	drown	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drown** | past · do-support | Hans |  |  | a pond |  | dude *vocative* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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in a pool on the moor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2038-pg902-part8:t7:o1:1
# text = in a pool on the moor
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
in a ditch

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2038-pg902-part8:t7:o2:1
# text = in a ditch
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
in a deep well

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2038-pg902-part8:t7:o3:1
# text = in a deep well
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	well	well	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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in the river nearby

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2038-pg902-part8:t7:o4:1
# text = in the river nearby
1	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	nearby	nearby	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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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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