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title: What did the bell sound like, dead nice or what? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the bell sound like, dead nice or what? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 297 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, part 24: the bell draws the town into the wood, and only a few go on» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, part 24: the bell draws…

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What did the bell sound like, dead nice or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** sound

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 297 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, part 24: the bell draws the town into the wood, and only a few go on» 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/297-pg1597-part24/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:297-pg1597-part24:t10:1
# text = What did the bell sound like, dead nice or what?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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like a mum to a good kid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:297-pg1597-part24:t10:o1:1
# text = like a mum to a good kid
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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like a dog to a boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:297-pg1597-part24:t10:o2:1
# text = like a dog to a boy
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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like a cow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:297-pg1597-part24:t10:o3:1
# text = like a cow
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cow	cow	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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like a drum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:297-pg1597-part24:t10:o4:1
# text = like a drum
1	like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	drum	drum	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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