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title: What did the bells do when the coachman got back? — Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the bells do when the coachman got back? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1123 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon, the Prince slays it but the coachman steals the glory» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of e
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# Test 7 · ★ · Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon,…

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What did the bells do when the coachman got back?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bells, coachman · **What happens:** do, get back

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1123 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Prince and the Six-Headed Dragon, the Prince slays it but the coachman steals the glory» 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/1123-pg29672-part29/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t7:1
# text = What did the bells do when the coachman got back?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	coachman	coachman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | the bells |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get back** | past | the coachman |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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they cried

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t7:o1:1
# text = they cried
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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they rang loud and long for days

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t7:o2:1
# text = they rang loud and long for days
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | past | they |  |  |  | day | loud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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rang

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t7:o3:1
# text = rang
1	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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they rang

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1123-pg29672-part29:t7:o4:1
# text = they rang
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | past | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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