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title: What name was inscribed by the father in the family Bible? — Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What name was inscribed by the father in the family Bible? Exam question 3 of lesson 919 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell: a cracked bell is sold, melted, and cast into a statue of a poet» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell: a cracked bell is s…

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What name was inscribed by the father in the family Bible?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** father · **What happens:** inscribe · **To what, where:** name

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 919 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell: a cracked bell is sold, melted, and cast into a statue of a poet» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/919-pg27200-part130/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:919-pg27200-part130:e3:1
# text = What name was inscribed by the father in the family Bible?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inscribe** | past · passive | the father in the family Bible | name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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Christopher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:919-pg27200-part130:e3:o1:1
# text = Christopher
1	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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John Christopher Frederick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:919-pg27200-part130:e3:o2:1
# text = John Christopher Frederick
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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John Frederick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:919-pg27200-part130:e3:o3:1
# text = John Frederick
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Frederick Christian John

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:919-pg27200-part130:e3:o4:1
# text = Frederick Christian John
1	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	_	1	flat	_	_
3	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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