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title: Ngl, what does the funeral sound like? — Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ngl, what does the funeral sound like? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 804 «Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, part 15: the bishop is slain, a funeral sounds, a ship is saved, and a bottle neck remembers its past» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, part 15: the bishop is…

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Ngl, what does the funeral sound like?

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

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 804 «Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, part 15: the bishop is slain, a funeral sounds, a ship is saved, and a bottle neck remembers its past» 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/804-pg27200-part15/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:804-pg27200-part15:t3:1
# text = Ngl, what does the funeral sound like?
1	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | Ngl *vocative* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A long sorrowful wail that never seems to end

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:804-pg27200-part15:t3:o1:1
# text = A long sorrowful wail that never seems to end
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	wail	wail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **seem** | present | a long sorrowful wail |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **end** | to-infinitive | a long sorrowful wail *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A wail that never dies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:804-pg27200-part15:t3:o2:1
# text = A wail that never dies
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wail	wail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **die** | present | a wail |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Loud bells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:804-pg27200-part15:t3:o3:1
# text = Loud bells
1	Loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A sad song

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:804-pg27200-part15:t3:o4:1
# text = A sad song
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	song	song	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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