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title: what could she hear at sunset instead of bells — Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth,… · tree and pragmatics
description: what could she hear at sunset instead of bells Test 13 · ★ of lesson 793 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 4: the boat sinks, and Anne Lisbeth walks home alone by the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 4: the boat sin…

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what could she hear at sunset instead of bells

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she · **What happens:** hear

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 793 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Anne Lisbeth, part 4: the boat sinks, and Anne Lisbeth walks home alone by the sea» 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/793-pg27200-part4/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:793-pg27200-part4:t13:1
# text = what could she hear at sunset instead of bells
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | could | she |  |  |  | sunset | instead bells | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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frogs croaking loudly in the marshes below

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:793-pg27200-part4:t13:o1:1
# text = frogs croaking loudly in the marshes below
1	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	croaking	croak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	below	below	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **croak** | gerund | frogs *not said here* |  |  | the marshes |  | loudly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
dogs barking in the village

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:793-pg27200-part4:t13:o2:1
# text = dogs barking in the village
1	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bark** | gerund | dogs *not said here* |  |  | the village |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
church bells in the distance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:793-pg27200-part4:t13:o3:1
# text = church bells in the distance
1	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
frogs croaking in the marshes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:793-pg27200-part4:t13:o4:1
# text = frogs croaking in the marshes
1	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	croaking	croak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	marshes	marsh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **croak** | gerund | frogs *not said here* |  |  | the marshes |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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