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title: What is the designation of the instrument upon which the boy perform… — Roumanian Fairy Tales, Mogarzea, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: What is the designation of the instrument upon which the boy performed for the maidens? Exam question 2 of lesson 1816 «Roumanian Fairy Tales, Mogarzea, part 67: the shepherd boy wins back Mogarzea's soul» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Exam question 2 · Roumanian Fairy Tales, Mogarzea, part 67: the shepherd boy…

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What is the designation of the instrument upon which the boy performed for the maidens?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** designation, boy · **What happens:** be, perform, designate · **To what, where:** instrument

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1816 «Roumanian Fairy Tales, Mogarzea, part 67: the shepherd boy wins back Mogarzea's soul» 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/1816-pg641-part67/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1816-pg641-part67:e2:1
# text = What is the designation of the instrument upon which the boy performed for the maidens?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	designation	designation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	performed	perform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the designation of the instrument |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **perform** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  | upon the instrument; for the maidens | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for maiden=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **designate** |  |  | the instrument |  |  |  |  | nom designation «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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A fiddle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1816-pg641-part67:e2:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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A whistle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1816-pg641-part67:e2:o2:1
# text = A whistle
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A flute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1816-pg641-part67:e2:o3:1
# 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.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A wooden flute carved from a cherry tree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1816-pg641-part67:e2:o4:1
# text = A wooden flute carved from a cherry tree
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	cherry	cherry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | participle |  | a wooden flute *not said here* |  | a cherry tree |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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