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title: Which plays highest: violin, viola, cello or double bass? — Instrument families: strings, wind, br… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which plays highest: violin, viola, cello or double bass? Test 11 · ★★ 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; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys

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Which plays highest: violin, viola, cello or double bass?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** play · **To what, where:** violin

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This is test 11 · ★★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys:t11:1
# text = Which plays highest: violin, viola, cello or double bass?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	violin	violin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	viola	viola	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	cello	cello	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bass	bass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present |  | violin and viola and cello or double bass |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

## The options {#options}

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

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Violin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys:t11:o1:1
# text = Violin
1	Violin	violin	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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Viola

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys:t11:o2:1
# text = Viola
1	Viola	Viola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Double bass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys:t11:o3:1
# text = Double bass
1	Double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bass	bass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cello

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys:t11:o4:1
# text = Cello
1	Cello	cello	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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