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title: Where did the bells tinkle so loud nobody could talk? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingal… · tree and pragmatics
description: Where did the bells tinkle so loud nobody could talk? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 912 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emperor hears of a bird, and a jewelled fake is sent» 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 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emp…

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Where did the bells tinkle so loud nobody could talk?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bells, nobody · **What happens:** be, tinkle, talk

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 912 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale, part 123: the emperor hears of a bird, and a jewelled fake is sent» 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/912-pg27200-part123/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t13:1
# text = Where did the bells tinkle so loud nobody could talk?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tinkle	tinkle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tinkle** | present | the bells |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **talk** | could | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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"In the garden gates"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t13:o1:1
# text = "In the garden gates"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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"Outside"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t13:o2:1
# text = "Outside"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Outside	outside	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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"In the hall"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t13:o3:1
# text = "In the hall"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

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

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In the corridors

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:912-pg27200-part123:t13:o4:1
# text = In the corridors
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	corridors	corridor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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