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title: Three of these are usually played with a bow. Which odd one is pluck… — Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Three of these are usually played with a bow. Which odd one is plucked? Test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★

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Three of these are usually played with a bow. Which odd one is plucked?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** play, pluck · **To what, where:** Three, odd one

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This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★» of the arts 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/arts/41-olympiad-music-puzzles/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Three of these are usually played with a bow.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:41-olympiad-music-puzzles:t4:1
# text = Three of these are usually played with a bow.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	1	nmod	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present · passive |  | Three of these |  |  |  | with a bow; usually *property* | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: subject=Theme with bow=Co-Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which odd one is plucked?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:41-olympiad-music-puzzles:t4:2
# text = Which odd one is plucked?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
2	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pluck** | present · passive |  | which odd one |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The kora

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:41-olympiad-music-puzzles:t4:o1:1
# text = The kora
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kora	kora	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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The Chinese erhu

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:41-olympiad-music-puzzles:t4:o2:1
# text = The Chinese erhu
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	erhu	erhu	NOUN	NN	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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The cello

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:41-olympiad-music-puzzles:t4:o3:1
# text = The cello
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cello	cello	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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The violin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:41-olympiad-music-puzzles:t4:o4:1
# text = The violin
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	violin	violin	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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