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title: what instrument did Abdallah play, like a drum or what? — Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty… · tree and pragmatics
description: what instrument did Abdallah play, like a drum or what? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1471 «Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 58: Morgiana foils the robbers' attack and dances at supper» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 8 · ★ · Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 58: M…

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what instrument did Abdallah play, like a drum or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** instrument · **What happens:** play · **To what, where:** drum

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1471 «Arabian Nights, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, part 58: Morgiana foils the robbers' attack and dances at supper» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1471-pg503-part58/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1471-pg503-part58:t8:1
# text = what instrument did Abdallah play, like a drum or what?
1	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Abdallah	Abdallah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past · do-support | what instrument | a drum |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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the lyre

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1471-pg503-part58:t8:o1:1
# text = the lyre
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lyre	lyre	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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a drum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1471-pg503-part58:t8:o2:1
# text = a drum
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the tabor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1471-pg503-part58:t8:o3:1
# text = the tabor
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tabor	tabor	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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a small hand-drum with silver bells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1471-pg503-part58:t8:o4:1
# text = a small hand-drum with silver bells
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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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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