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title: so the duck dunked him in what, a water-trough? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese… · tree and pragmatics
description: so the duck dunked him in what, a water-trough? Test 5 · ★ 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 the question and of 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hur…

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so the duck dunked him in what, a water-trough?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** duck · **What happens:** dunk · **To what, where:** him

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This is test 5 · ★ 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. 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t5:1
# text = so the duck dunked him in what, a water-trough?
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	dunked	dunk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	trough	trough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dunk** | past | the duck | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme in what=Trajectory |

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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 water-trough

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t5:o1:1
# text = the water-trough
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	trough	trough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the mud puddle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t5:o2:1
# text = the mud puddle
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	puddle	puddle	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 -->
the rain barrel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t5:o3:1
# text = the rain barrel
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	barrel	barrel	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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the big wooden water-trough by the gate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t5:o4:1
# text = the big wooden water-trough by the gate
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	trough	trough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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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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