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title: Which individual is described as the sovereign of all pipers in Muns… — pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Co… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which individual is described as the sovereign of all pipers in Munster? Exam question 1 of lesson 1304 «pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes set fish, feet and folk dancing» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Exam question 1 · pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes s…

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Which individual is described as the sovereign of all pipers in Munster?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** describe · **To what, where:** individual

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1304 «pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes set fish, feet and folk dancing» 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/1304-pg3454-part29/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1304-pg3454-part29:e1:1
# text = Which individual is described as the sovereign of all pipers in Munster?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	individual	individual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	pipers	piper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Munster	Munster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present · passive |  | which individual |  |  |  | as the sovereign of all pipers in Munster | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as sovereign=Attribute |

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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 {#o1}

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Father Conry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1304-pg3454-part29:e1:o1:1
# text = Father Conry
1	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Conry	Conry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The blind piper of Iveragh and Munster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1304-pg3454-part29:e1:o2:1
# text = The blind piper of Iveragh and Munster
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	piper	piper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Iveragh	Iveragh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Munster	Munster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Paddy Dorman

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1304-pg3454-part29:e1:o3:1
# text = Paddy Dorman
1	Paddy	Paddy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Dorman	Dorman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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

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

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Maurice Connor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1304-pg3454-part29:e1:o4:1
# text = Maurice Connor
1	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Connor	Connor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
```

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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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