--- title: what word did the little duck make a joke with, the one that sounds… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese… · tree and pragmatics description: what word did the little duck make a joke with, the one that sounds like Portugal? Test 8 · ★ 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/942-pg27200-part153/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/942-pg27200-part153/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hur… what word did the little duck make a joke with, the one that sounds like Portugal? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** word, little duck, one · **What happens:** do, make, sound · **To what, where:** joke This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t8:1 # text = what word did the little duck make a joke with, the one that sounds like Portugal? 1 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 word word 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 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | what word | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | the little duck | a joke | | | | with the one | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Product | | 3 | **sound** | present | the one | | | | | like Portugal | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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 {#o1} Lisbon ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t8:o1:1 # text = Lisbon 1 Lisbon Lisbon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Porto ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t8:o2:1 # text = Porto 1 Porto Porto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Portulak ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t8:o3:1 # text = Portulak 1 Portulak Portulak PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} a silly pun on Portugal's name ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t8:o4:1 # text = a silly pun on Portugal's name 1 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 pun pun NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 Portugal Portugal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **name** | | Portugal | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | **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. 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