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title: Which instrument provided music for the rescued persons at the farm… — Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which instrument provided music for the rescued persons at the farm of Borglum? Exam question 3 of lesson 804 «Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, part 15: the bishop is slain, a funeral sounds, a ship is saved, and a bottle neck remembers its past» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with 
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, part 15: the bishop is…

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Which instrument provided music for the rescued persons at the farm of Borglum?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** instrument · **What happens:** provide, rescue · **To what, where:** music, farm

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 804 «Andersen's Tales, The Bottle Neck, part 15: the bishop is slain, a funeral sounds, a ship is saved, and a bottle neck remembers its past» 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/804-pg27200-part15/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:804-pg27200-part15:e3:1
# text = Which instrument provided music for the rescued persons at the farm of Borglum?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	provided	provide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	rescued	rescue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Borglum	Borglum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **provide** | past | which instrument | music |  | the farm of Borglum |  | for the rescued persons | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition music=Theme for person=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **rescue** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: 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 grand piano playing sad native melodies of the homeland

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:804-pg27200-part15:e3:o1:1
# text = A grand piano playing sad native melodies of the homeland
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	piano	piano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	melodies	melody	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	homeland	homeland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | gerund | a grand piano *not said here* | sad native melodies of the homeland |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melody=Theme |

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

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A piano playing native melodies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:804-pg27200-part15:e3:o2:1
# text = A piano playing native melodies
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	piano	piano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	melodies	melody	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | gerund | a piano *not said here* | native melodies |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melody=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A fiddle playing folk songs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:804-pg27200-part15:e3:o3:1
# text = A fiddle playing folk songs
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | gerund | a fiddle *not said here* | folk songs |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A harmonium playing hymns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:804-pg27200-part15:e3:o4:1
# text = A harmonium playing hymns
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	harmonium	harmonium	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	hymns	hymn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | gerund | a harmonium *not said here* | hymns |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hymn=Theme |

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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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