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title: did the duck say she loves everybody, except who? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese… · tree and pragmatics
description: did the duck say she loves everybody, except who? Test 9 · ★ 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 o
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hur…

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did the duck say she loves everybody, except who?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** duck · **What happens:** say, love · **To what, where:** everybody · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t9:1
# text = did the duck say she loves everybody, except who?
1	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	except	except	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the duck |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **love** | present | duck | everybody |  |  |  |  | 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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none

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t9:o1:1
# text = none
1	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the cat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t9:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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the hawk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t9:o3:1
# text = the hawk
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hawk	hawk	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 grey barn tomcat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:942-pg27200-part153:t9:o4:1
# text = the grey barn tomcat
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	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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