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title: Which country does the Portuguese duck claim as her place of origin? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which country does the Portuguese duck claim as her place of origin? Exam question 1 of lesson 942 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hurt songbird lands in a farmyard and is cared for by a duck» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hur…

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Which country does the Portuguese duck claim as her place of origin?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** country · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Portuguese duck claim

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 942 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hurt songbird lands in a farmyard and is cared for by a duck» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/942-pg27200-part153/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:e1:1
# text = Which country does the Portuguese duck claim as her place of origin?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	claim	claim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | which country | the Portuguese duck claim |  |  |  | as country's place of origin | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Eventuality |

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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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Portugal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:e1:o1:1
# text = Portugal
1	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	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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Holland

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:e1:o2:1
# text = Holland
1	Holland	Holland	PROPN	NNP	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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Newfoundland

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:e1:o3:1
# text = Newfoundland
1	Newfoundland	newfoundland	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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Belgium

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:e1:o4:1
# text = Belgium
1	Belgium	Belgium	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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