---
title: wait, so the bell's metal became what? — Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell:… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, so the bell's metal became what? Test 12 · ★ 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 of each option; Mova's 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/919-pg27200-part130/t12/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/919-pg27200-part130/) / t12

# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell: a cracked bell is s…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
wait, so the bell's metal became what?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, metal · **What happens:** wait, become

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 12 · ★ 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. 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:919-pg27200-part130:t12:1
# text = wait, so the bell's metal became what?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | the bell's metal |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A brass horn for fanfare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:919-pg27200-part130:t12:o1:1
# text = A brass horn for fanfare
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fanfare	fanfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Copper pots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:919-pg27200-part130:t12:o2:1
# text = Copper pots
1	Copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A statue head and bust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:919-pg27200-part130:t12:o3:1
# text = A statue head and bust
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bust	bust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Cannon balls for battle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:919-pg27200-part130:t12:o4:1
# text = Cannon balls for battle
1	Cannon	cannon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	balls	ball	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell:…, test 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/919-pg27200-part130/t11/)
- next →: [Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell:…, test 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/919-pg27200-part130/t13/)
- ↑ back to [Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell: a cracked bell is sold, melted, and cast into a statue of a poet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/919-pg27200-part130/)