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title: Who undertook to instruct the knight concerning his route to the cas… — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerg… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who undertook to instruct the knight concerning his route to the castle? Exam question 4 of lesson 1318 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the stones crush the sorcerer, and Peronnik hears of the magic basin» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree an
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# Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the st…

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Who undertook to instruct the knight concerning his route to the castle?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** knight · **What happens:** undertake, instruct, concern · **To what, where:** knight, route

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1318 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the stones crush the sorcerer, and Peronnik hears of the magic basin» 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/1318-pg3454-part43/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1318-pg3454-part43:e4:1
# text = Who undertook to instruct the knight concerning his route to the castle?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	undertook	undertake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	instruct	instruct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	route	route	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undertake** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **instruct** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  | the knight |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent knight=Recipient |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund | the knight *not said here* | his route |  |  |  | to the castle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus route=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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the hermit of Blavet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1318-pg3454-part43:e4:o1:1
# text = the hermit of Blavet
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Blavet	Blavet	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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the knight of Kerglas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1318-pg3454-part43:e4:o2:1
# text = the knight of Kerglas
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Kerglas	Kerglas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the miller

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1318-pg3454-part43:e4:o3:1
# text = the miller
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	miller	miller	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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the old hermit who lived in a cave beside the river Blavet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1318-pg3454-part43:e4:o4:1
# text = the old hermit who lived in a cave beside the river Blavet
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	Blavet	Blavet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | the old hermit |  |  | a cave |  | beside the river | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location |

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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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