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title: "Mate, ducks' quacks don't echo, scientists are baffled, read it onl… — Birds and baby animals · tree and pragmatics
description: "Mate, ducks' quacks don't echo, scientists are baffled, read it online." Which question cracks it? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 10 «Birds and baby animals» of the myths course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 6 · ★ · Birds and baby animals

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"Mate, ducks' quacks don't echo, scientists are baffled, read it online." Which question cracks it?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** quacks, question · **What happens:** not echo, baffle, read, crack · **To what, where:** scientists, it · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 10 «Birds and baby animals» of the myths 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/myths/10-birds-and-baby-animals/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* "Mate, ducks' quacks don't echo, scientists are baffled, read it online."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:10-birds-and-baby-animals:t6:1
# text = "Mate, ducks' quacks don't echo, scientists are baffled, read it online."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	quacks	quack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	echo	echo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	baffled	baffle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	online	online	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **echo** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Mate ducks's quacks |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **baffle** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | scientists |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **read** *in a quote* | infinitive | Mate ducks's quacks *not said here* | it |  |  |  | online *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which question cracks it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:10-birds-and-baby-animals:t6:2
# text = Which question cracks it?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cracks	crack	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crack** | present | which question | it |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Has anyone actually tested it?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:10-birds-and-baby-animals:t6:o1:1
# text = Has anyone actually tested it?
1	Has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	1	obj	_	_
3	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tested	test	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  | anyone |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient |
| 2 | **test** | past |  | it |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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How many legs does a duck have?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:10-birds-and-baby-animals:t6:o2:1
# text = How many legs does a duck have?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · do-support | many legs |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Is it on more than one website?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:10-birds-and-baby-animals:t6:o3:1
# text = Is it on more than one website?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	6	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	website	website	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  | one website |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Why are ducks yellow in cartoons?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:myths:10-birds-and-baby-animals:t6:o4:1
# text = Why are ducks yellow in cartoons?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | ducks |  |  | cartoons |  | yellow *property* | tree rules |

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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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