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title: Bet, what is Duus? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bet, what is Duus? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 304 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 31: the shadow returns as a fine gentleman and boasts of what he saw» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was rig
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 31: the shadow re…

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Bet, what is Duus?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bet · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Duus

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 304 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 31: the shadow returns as a fine gentleman and boasts of what he saw» 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/304-pg1597-part31/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:304-pg1597-part31:t12:1
# text = Bet, what is Duus?
1	Bet	bet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	Duus	Duus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Bet | Duus |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Friends clinking glasses, drinking together and calling each other brothers in the old way

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:304-pg1597-part31:t12:o1:1
# text = Friends clinking glasses, drinking together and calling each other brothers in the old way
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	clinking	clink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	conj	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	conj	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clink** | gerund | Friends *not said here* | glasses |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location glass=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | gerund | Friends *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | gerund | Friends *not said here* |  | each other brothers | the old way |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Guests singing and toasting their old teachers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:304-pg1597-part31:t12:o2:1
# text = Guests singing and toasting their old teachers
1	Guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	toasting	toast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	conj	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Guests *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **toast** | gerund | Guests *not said here* | Guests's old teachers |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent teacher=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Friends clinking glasses and calling each other brothers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:304-pg1597-part31:t12:o3:1
# text = Friends clinking glasses and calling each other brothers
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	clinking	clink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	glasses	glass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	conj	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clink** | gerund | Friends *not said here* | glasses |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location glass=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | Friends *not said here* |  | each other brothers |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Friends dancing and calling each other sisters

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:304-pg1597-part31:t12:o4:1
# text = Friends dancing and calling each other sisters
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | gerund | Friends |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | gerund | Friends *not said here* |  | each other sisters |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient |

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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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