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title: Which musical instrument does the lute player carry into the court? — Fairy Tales pg641, The Lute Player and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which musical instrument does the lute player carry into the court? Exam question 1 of lesson 1762 «Fairy Tales pg641, The Lute Player and The Grateful Prince, part 13: the queen wins back her king, then a lost king makes a bargain with a stranger» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with 
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# Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales pg641, The Lute Player and The Grateful Prince…

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Which musical instrument does the lute player carry into the court?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** musical instrument · **What happens:** do, carry · **To what, where:** lute player, court

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1762 «Fairy Tales pg641, The Lute Player and The Grateful Prince, part 13: the queen wins back her king, then a lost king makes a bargain with a stranger» 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/1762-pg641-part13/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1762-pg641-part13:e1:1
# text = Which musical instrument does the lute player carry into the court?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	obj	_	_
2	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	lute	lute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | musical instrument | the lute player |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | present |  |  |  | the court |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a lute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1762-pg641-part13:e1: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}

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a wooden recorder from home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1762-pg641-part13:e1:o2:1
# text = a wooden recorder from home
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	recorder	recorder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a golden trumpet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1762-pg641-part13:e1:o3:1
# text = a golden trumpet
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trumpet	trumpet	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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a viol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1762-pg641-part13:e1:o4:1
# text = a viol
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	viol	viol	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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