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title: what tune was the princess the only one who could play? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd:… · tree and pragmatics
description: what tune was the princess the only one who could play? Test 8 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choic
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, t…

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what tune was the princess the only one who could play?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** tune, only one · **What happens:** be, play · **To what, where:** princess

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This is test 8 · ★ 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. 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:997-pg27200-part208:t8:1
# text = what tune was the princess the only one who could play?
1	what	what	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	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | what tune | the princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **play** | could | the only one |  |  |  |  |  | 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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the jolly old tune that the pot played for everyone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:997-pg27200-part208:t8:o1:1
# text = the jolly old tune that the pot played for everyone
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	jolly	jolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | the pot | the jolly old tune |  |  |  | for everyone | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent that=Theme for everyone=Eventuality |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the jolly sow song

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:997-pg27200-part208:t8:o2:1
# text = the jolly sow song
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	jolly	jolly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	sow	sow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	song	song	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 silly song about a pig and a sow in the yard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:997-pg27200-part208:t8:o3:1
# text = a silly song about a pig and a sow in the yard
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sow	sow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the royal anthem

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:997-pg27200-part208:t8:o4:1
# text = the royal anthem
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	anthem	anthem	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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