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title: What was the principal instruction given by the giant to those ascen… — Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life,… · tree and pragmatics
description: What was the principal instruction given by the giant to those ascending the mountain? Exam question 3 of lesson 1644 «Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brothers climb the mountain and turn to stone» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmati
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# Exam question 3 · Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brother…

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What was the principal instruction given by the giant to those ascending the mountain?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be, give, ascend · **To what, where:** principal instruction, mountain

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1644 «Catalan Folk-Tales, The Water of Life, part 2: the brothers climb the mountain and turn to stone» 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/1644-pg5615-part33/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:e3:1
# text = What was the principal instruction given by the giant to those ascending the mountain?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	instruction	instruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	obl	_	_
12	ascending	ascend	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the principal instruction |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  | the principal instruction *not said here* |  |  |  | giant *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **ascend** | gerund |  | the mountain |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mountain=Trajectory |

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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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to refrain from looking back

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:e3:o1:1
# text = to refrain from looking back
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	refrain	refrain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refrain** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look back** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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to stay together at all times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:e3:o2:1
# text = to stay together at all times
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	stay	stay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay together** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | time | together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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to walk quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:e3:o3:1
# text = to walk quickly
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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to keep silent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1644-pg5615-part33:e3:o4:1
# text = to keep silent
1	to	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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