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title: Ugh, what did the duck call the bird? — Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ugh, what did the duck call the bird? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 943 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird dies, and a porter's boy saves a nursery from fire» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird…

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Ugh, what did the duck call the bird?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** duck · **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** bird · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 943 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird dies, and a porter's boy saves a nursery from fire» 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/943-pg27200-part154/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:943-pg27200-part154:t9:1
# text = Ugh, what did the duck call the bird?
1	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · do-support | the duck | the bird |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme bird=Result |

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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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impertinent creature

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:943-pg27200-part154:t9:o1:1
# text = impertinent creature
1	impertinent	impertinent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	creature	creature	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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wicked thing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:943-pg27200-part154:t9:o2:1
# text = wicked thing
1	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	thing	thing	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 -->
impudent creature

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:943-pg27200-part154:t9:o3:1
# text = impudent creature
1	impudent	impudent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	creature	creature	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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disgusting creature

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:943-pg27200-part154:t9:o4:1
# text = disgusting creature
1	disgusting	disgusting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	creature	creature	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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