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title: which tune was the painter whistling, do you know? — Andersen's Tales, The Moon, part 113:… · tree and pragmatics
description: which tune was the painter whistling, do you know? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 902 «Andersen's Tales, The Moon, part 113: the Moon watches a grandmother at the Louvre, a boy's death on the throne, and the people by the sea» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmat
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Moon, part 113: the Moon watches a g…

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which tune was the painter whistling, do you know?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** tune, painter, you · **What happens:** be, whistle, know · **To what, where:** painter

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 902 «Andersen's Tales, The Moon, part 113: the Moon watches a grandmother at the Louvre, a boy's death on the throne, and the people by the sea» 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/902-pg27200-part113/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:902-pg27200-part113:t10:1
# text = which tune was the painter whistling, do you know?
1	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	painter	painter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	whistling	whistle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | which tune | the painter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **whistle** | gerund | the painter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **know** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 {#o1}

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A march by Verdi

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:902-pg27200-part113:t10:o1:1
# text = A march by Verdi
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Verdi	Verdi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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A march by Rossini that he had heard at the opera house

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:902-pg27200-part113:t10:o2:1
# text = A march by Rossini that he had heard at the opera house
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Rossini	Rossini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	opera	opera	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · perfect | Rossini | a march by Rossini *not said here* |  | the opera house |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer march=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A march by Rossini

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:902-pg27200-part113:t10:o3:1
# text = A march by Rossini
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Rossini	Rossini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A waltz by Chopin

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:902-pg27200-part113:t10:o4:1
# text = A waltz by Chopin
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	waltz	waltz	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Chopin	Chopin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waltz** |  | Chopin |  |  |  |  |  | nom waltz «event intransitive»: by=agent |

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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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