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title: What did the giant instruct the sister to disregard during her ascent? — Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34:… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the giant instruct the sister to disregard during her ascent? Exam question 2 of lesson 1645 «Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34: the sister wins the water of life, then a girl follows a wounded lion» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34: the sister wins the…

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What did the giant instruct the sister to disregard during her ascent?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** giant · **What happens:** instruct, disregard · **To what, where:** sister

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1645 «Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34: the sister wins the water of life, then a girl follows a wounded lion» 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/1645-pg5615-part34/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1645-pg5615-part34:e2:1
# text = What did the giant instruct the sister to disregard during her ascent?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	instruct	instruct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	disregard	disregard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	during	during	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	ascent	ascent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **instruct** *speech: other* | past · do-support | the giant | the sister |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **disregard** | to-infinitive | the giant *not said here* | the sister *not said here* |  |  | during giant's ascent |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: 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 {#o1}

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the rude calls of the youths below

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1645-pg5615-part34:e2:o1:1
# text = the rude calls of the youths below
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rude	rude	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	below	below	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** |  |  | the youths |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the mocking noises

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1645-pg5615-part34:e2:o2:1
# text = the mocking noises
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mocking	mocking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	noises	noise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 sounds of the crowd at the bottom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1645-pg5615-part34:e2:o3:1
# text = the sounds of the crowd at the bottom
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the cruel laughter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1645-pg5615-part34:e2:o4:1
# text = the cruel laughter
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	laughter	laughter	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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