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title: Which creature instructed the youth regarding the correct method of… — pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Princ… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which creature instructed the youth regarding the correct method of propelling the iron horse? Exam question 1 of lesson 1682 «pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Prince is caught and chained in a cave» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Exam question 1 · pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Prince is caught and chai…

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Which creature instructed the youth regarding the correct method of propelling the iron horse?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** creature, correct method · **What happens:** instruct, regard, propel · **To what, where:** youth, iron horse

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1682 «pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Prince is caught and chained in a cave» 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/1682-pg640-part6/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1682-pg640-part6:e1:1
# text = Which creature instructed the youth regarding the correct method of propelling the iron horse?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	propelling	propel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **instruct** *speech: other* | past | which creature | the youth |  |  |  | regard the correct method | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient |
| 2 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **propel** | gerund | the correct method *not said here* | the iron horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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A fox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1682-pg640-part6:e1:o1:1
# text = A fox
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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A raven

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1682-pg640-part6:e1:o2:1
# text = A raven
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	raven	raven	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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A grey hawk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1682-pg640-part6:e1:o3:1
# text = A grey hawk
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hawk	hawk	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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An owl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1682-pg640-part6:e1:o4:1
# text = An owl
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	owl	owl	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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