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title: Your mate goes, "anything shiny and metal is brass, innit." Which in… — Instrument families: strings, wind, br… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your mate goes, "anything shiny and metal is brass, innit." Which instrument proves him wrong? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option
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# Test 1 · ★★ · Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys

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Your mate goes, "anything shiny and metal is brass, innit." Which instrument proves him wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, metal, instrument · **What happens:** go, be, prove · **To what, where:** brass, mate

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys» 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/9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your mate goes, "anything shiny and metal is brass, innit."

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys:t1:1
# text = Your mate goes, "anything shiny and metal is brass, innit."
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Your mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | metal | brass and innit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 instrument proves him wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys:t1:2
# text = Which instrument proves him wrong?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	proves	prove	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | present | which instrument | mate |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The tuba, which is brass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys:t1:o1:1
# text = The tuba, which is brass
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tuba	tuba	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the tuba and brass | brass |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The trombone, which is brass and slides in and out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys:t1:o2:1
# text = The trombone, which is brass and slides in and out
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trombone	trombone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	slides	slide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the trombone and brass | brass |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **slide** | present | the trombone and brass |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The trumpet, which is brass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys:t1:o3:1
# text = The trumpet, which is brass
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the trumpet and brass | brass |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

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The flute, which is metal but a woodwind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys:t1:o4:1
# text = The flute, which is metal but a woodwind
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	woodwind	woodwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the flute but a woodwind | metal |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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