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title: Which creature did the duck decline to regard with affection? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which creature did the duck decline to regard with affection? Exam question 3 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 pragmatics of t
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hur…

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Which creature did the duck decline to regard with affection?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** creature · **What happens:** do, regard · **To what, where:** duck decline

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:e3:1
# text = Which creature did the duck decline to regard with affection?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	decline	decline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	regard	regard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which creature | the duck decline |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decline=Eventuality |
| 2 | **regard** | to-infinitive | which creature *not said here* | the duck decline *not said here* |  |  |  | with affection | vn assessment-34.1 «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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the cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:e3:o1:1
# text = the cat
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	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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owls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:e3:o2:1
# text = owls
1	owls	owl	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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dogs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:e3:o3:1
# text = dogs
1	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the sly old barn tomcat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:e3:o4:1
# text = the sly old barn tomcat
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	sly	sly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	tomcat	tomcat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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