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title: ok but who taught him nine-pins? — Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell:… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok but who taught him nine-pins? Test 6 · ★ 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 choice 
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# Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell: a cracked bell is s…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ok but who taught him nine-pins?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** teach · **To what, where:** nine pins, him

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:919-pg27200-part130:t6:1
# text = ok but who taught him nine-pins?
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	pins	pin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past |  | nine pins | him *= he* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pin=Topic |

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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 boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:919-pg27200-part130:t6:o1:1
# text = A boy
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Dad

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:919-pg27200-part130:t6:o2:1
# text = Dad
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A soldier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:919-pg27200-part130:t6:o3:1
# text = A soldier
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
An artist

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:919-pg27200-part130:t6:o4:1
# text = An artist
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	artist	artist	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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