Test 13 · ★ · Historic Tales, The Bell of Atri: an old horse pulls a gra…

real talk, what does the story teach us about the bell?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: story · What happens: teach · To what, where: real talk, us

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 349 «Historic Tales, The Bell of Atri: an old horse pulls a grape-vine, the bell of justice rings, and the judges make the greedy miser share his gold» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 teach	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 teach	obj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 teach	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 teach	nsubj
8	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	acl:relcl
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 teach	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 bell	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bell	det
12	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 teach	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present · do-support	the story	real talk	us			about the bell	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient we=Topic

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

the bell should only be rung when someone truly suffers a real and serious wrong

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bell	det
2	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rung	nsubj:pass
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 rung	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 rung	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 rung	aux:pass
6	rung	ring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 suffers	advmod
8	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 suffers	nsubj
9	truly	truly	ADV	_	10 suffers	advmod
10	suffers	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rung	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 wrong	det
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wrong	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 serious	cc
14	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 real	conj
15	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 suffers	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	should · passive		the bell					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	suffer	present	someone					truly property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

it only rings when a real wrong has been done to someone in the town

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rings	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 rings	advmod
3	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 done	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wrong	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wrong	amod
7	wrong	wrong	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 done	nsubj:pass
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 done	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 done	aux:pass
10	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 rings	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 someone	case
12	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 done	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 town	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 town	det
15	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 someone	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	present	it						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	present · perfect · passive		a real wrong				to someone	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it only rings for real wrongs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rings	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 rings	advmod
3	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 wrongs	case
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wrongs	amod
6	wrongs	wrong	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rings	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	present	it					for real wrongs	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

it rings for every rich man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rings	nsubj
2	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 man	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 man	det
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rings	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	present	it					for every rich man	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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