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title: On what occasion did the church bells toll in the township during th… — Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161:… · tree and pragmatics
description: On what occasion did the church bells toll in the township during this period? Exam question 4 of lesson 950 «Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plague to Falster» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Exam question 4 · Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plag…

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On what occasion did the church bells toll in the township during this period?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** occasion, church bells · **What happens:** do, toll · **To what, where:** township

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 950 «Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plague to Falster» 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/950-pg27200-part161/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:e4:1
# text = On what occasion did the church bells toll in the township during this period?
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	toll	toll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	township	township	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | occasion |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **toll** | present | the church bells |  |  | the township | during this period |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on what=Location |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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New Year's morning

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:e4:o1:1
# text = New Year's morning
1	New	New	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Christmas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:e4:o2:1
# text = Christmas
1	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Harvest time at dusk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:e4:o3:1
# text = Harvest time at dusk
1	Harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sunday

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:950-pg27200-part161:e4:o4:1
# text = Sunday
1	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	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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