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title: ngl what instrument was he playing — Europe's Fairy Book, Tiidu the Piper,… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl what instrument was he playing Test 10 · ★ of lesson 677 «Europe's Fairy Book, Tiidu the Piper, part 17: a wise maiden is carried off, and lazy Tiidu finds his pipes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 10 · ★ · Europe's Fairy Book, Tiidu the Piper, part 17: a wise maid…

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ngl what instrument was he playing

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ngl instrument · **What happens:** play

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 677 «Europe's Fairy Book, Tiidu the Piper, part 17: a wise maiden is carried off, and lazy Tiidu finds his pipes» 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/677-pg2435-part17/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:677-pg2435-part17:t10:1
# text = ngl what instrument was he playing
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	1	conj	_	_
3	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past · progressive | ngl instrument |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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 {#o1}

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a harp

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:677-pg2435-part17:t10:o1:1
# text = a harp
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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his flute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:677-pg2435-part17:t10:o2:1
# text = his flute
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
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 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a large bagpipe he had bought in town

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:677-pg2435-part17:t10:o3:1
# text = a large bagpipe he had bought in town
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bagpipe	bagpipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** | past · perfect | he | a large bagpipe *not said here* |  | town |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bagpipe=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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his fiddle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:677-pg2435-part17:t10:o4:1
# text = his fiddle
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
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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**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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