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title: Which instrument does the swineherd make to play all the waltzes, ga… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which instrument does the swineherd make to play all the waltzes, galops and polkas known in the world? Exam question 2 of lesson 997 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, the rattle and the kisses» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragma
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, t…

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Which instrument does the swineherd make to play all the waltzes, galops and polkas known in the world?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** instrument, swineherd · **What happens:** do, make, play, galop, know · **To what, where:** waltzes, polkas, world

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 997 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, the rattle and the kisses» 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/997-pg27200-part208/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:997-pg27200-part208:e2:1
# text = Which instrument does the swineherd make to play all the waltzes, galops and polkas known in the world?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	instrument	instrument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	waltzes	waltz	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	galops	galop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	polkas	polka	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | which instrument |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | the swineherd |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** | to-infinitive | the swineherd *not said here* | all waltzes |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waltz=Theme |
| 4 | **galop** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | participle |  | polkas *not said here* |  | the world |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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a rattle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:997-pg27200-part208:e2:o1:1
# text = a rattle
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rattle	rattle	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 barrel organ that plays all the world's dances

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:997-pg27200-part208:e2:o2:1
# text = a barrel organ that plays all the world's dances
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | present | a barrel organ | the world's dances |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme |
| 2 | **dance** |  | the world |  |  |  |  |  | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a fiddle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:997-pg27200-part208:e2:o3:1
# 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.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a music box with a tiny crank

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:997-pg27200-part208:e2:o4:1
# text = a music box with a tiny crank
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	crank	crank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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