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title: Which creature first advised the king to eat, sleep, and be watched… — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which creature first advised the king to eat, sleep, and be watched over? Exam question 4 of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics
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# Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re…

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Which creature first advised the king to eat, sleep, and be watched over?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** creature · **What happens:** advise, eat, watch over · **To what, where:** king

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» 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/1290-pg3454-part15/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:e4:1
# text = Which creature first advised the king to eat, sleep, and be watched over?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
4	advised	advise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	over	over	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advise** *speech: other* | past | which creature |  | the king and sleep |  |  | first *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | which creature *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **watch over** | infinitive · passive | which creature *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location» |

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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 slim yellow dog that came first to the fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:e4:o1:1
# text = the slim yellow dog that came first to the fire
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	slim	slim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the slim yellow dog |  |  | the fire |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fire=Initial\_Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the grey otter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:e4:o2:1
# text = the grey otter
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	otter	otter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the yellow dog that came from the wood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:e4:o3:1
# text = the yellow dog that came from the wood
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the yellow dog |  |  | the wood |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from wood=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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the yellow dog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1290-pg3454-part15:e4:o4:1
# text = the yellow dog
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dog	dog	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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