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title: Which animal did the Musician bind to the aspen tree with a long cord? — Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which animal did the Musician bind to the aspen tree with a long cord? Exam question 1 of lesson 1583 «Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, part 80: the Musician's last trick, then Sigurd's birth and Regin's tale of the gold» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and
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# Exam question 1 · Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, part 80: the Musician…

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Which animal did the Musician bind to the aspen tree with a long cord?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** animal · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Musician bind

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1583 «Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, part 80: the Musician's last trick, then Sigurd's birth and Regin's tale of the gold» 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/1583-pg540-part80/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1583-pg540-part80:e1:1
# text = Which animal did the Musician bind to the aspen tree with a long cord?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Musician	musician	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bind	bind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	aspen	aspen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which animal | the Musician bind |  |  |  | to the aspen tree; with a long cord | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bind=Eventuality |

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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 little hare that played the cord

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1583-pg540-part80:e1:o1:1
# text = the little hare that played the cord
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | the little hare | the cord |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the small grey hare sitting by the stream

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1583-pg540-part80:e1:o2:1
# text = the small grey hare sitting by the stream
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund | the small grey hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the stream | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by stream=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the little hare

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1583-pg540-part80:e1:o3:1
# text = the little hare
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hare	hare	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 young bear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1583-pg540-part80:e1:o4:1
# text = the young bear
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bear	bear	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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