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description: Which instrument did the farmer's son request from his father at the fair? Exam question 3 of lesson 1929 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince outwits the Princess, and a hedgehog-boy rides a cock to the forest» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency
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# Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince…

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Which instrument did the farmer's son request from his father at the fair?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** instrument, farmer · **What happens:** do, request · **To what, where:** son request, fair

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1929 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jack My Hedgehog, part 66: the Prince outwits the Princess, and a hedgehog-boy rides a cock to the forest» 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/1929-pg7277-part66/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:e3:1
# text = Which instrument did the farmer's son request from his father at the fair?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	instrument	instrument	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	5	det	_	_
5	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fair	fair	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 instrument | the farmer's son request |  | the fair |  | from instrument's father | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality |
| 2 | **request** |  | the farmer |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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 bagpipe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:e3:o1:1
# text = a bagpipe
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bagpipe	bagpipe	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 bagpipe and a fine red cloak

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:e3:o2:1
# text = a bagpipe and a fine red cloak
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bagpipe	bagpipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a flute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:e3: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 fiddle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1929-pg7277-part66:e3:o4:1
# 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.

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