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title: Wicked, what instrument did the queen take on her travels? — Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, pa… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wicked, what instrument did the queen take on her travels? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1761 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is taken prisoner and his queen sets out disguised as a boy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Test 9 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is take…

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Wicked, what instrument did the queen take on her travels?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Wicked instrument, queen · **What happens:** instrument, do, take, travel

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1761 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is taken prisoner and his queen sets out disguised as a boy» 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/1761-pg641-part12/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t9:1
# text = Wicked, what instrument did the queen take on her travels?
1	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **instrument** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past | Wicked instrument |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | present | the queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **travel** | present | the queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a lute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t9:o1:1
# text = a lute
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lute	lute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a fiddle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t9:o2:1
# text = a fiddle
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a golden harp from her father's hall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t9:o3:1
# text = a golden harp from her father's hall
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a flute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1761-pg641-part12:t9:o4:1
# text = a flute
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	flute	flute	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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