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title: Which instrument did the King perform upon at the Ball? — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which instrument did the King perform upon at the Ball? Exam question 1 of lesson 2039 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 9: the fireworks start to chatter and the Rocket brags about himself» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Exam question 1 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

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Which instrument did the King perform upon at the Ball?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** instrument · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** King perform

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 2039 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 9: the fireworks start to chatter and the Rocket brags about himself» 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/2039-pg902-part9/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:e1:1
# text = Which instrument did the King perform upon at the Ball?
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	6	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	perform	perform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Ball	Ball	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	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 King perform |  |  |  | upon the Ball | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perform=Eventuality |

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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 clarinet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:e1:o1:1
# text = The clarinet
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clarinet	clarinet	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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Harp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:e1:o2:1
# text = Harp
1	Harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The trumpet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:e1:o3:1
# text = The trumpet
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The flute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:e1:o4:1
# text = The flute
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|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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