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title: Lowkey, what was the clever trader's song really about? — Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lowkey, what was the clever trader's song really about? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1840 «Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu, part 1: the prince breaks the pitchers at the well» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 5 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu, part 1: the prince breaks…

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Lowkey, what was the clever trader's song really about?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lowkey · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** song

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1840 «Indian Fairy Tales, Raja Rasalu, part 1: the prince breaks the pitchers at the well» 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/1840-pg7128-part24/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1840-pg7128-part24:t5:1
# text = Lowkey, what was the clever trader's song really about?
1	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	trader	trader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
10	really	really	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Lowkey | the clever trader's song |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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the weather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1840-pg7128-part24:t5:o1:1
# text = the weather
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	weather	weather	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 song of the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1840-pg7128-part24:t5:o2:1
# text = a song of the sea
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** |  | the sea |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a love song

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1840-pg7128-part24:t5:o3:1
# text = a love song
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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a secret trade code

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1840-pg7128-part24:t5:o4:1
# text = a secret trade code
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	code	code	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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