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description: Which individual was instructed to preserve silence regarding the events that had befallen her? Exam question 2 of lesson 1767 «pg641, Dotterine, part 18: a magic egg grows into a girl, and the queen dies» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Exam question 2 · pg641, Dotterine, part 18: a magic egg grows into a girl,…

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Which individual was instructed to preserve silence regarding the events that had befallen her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** events · **What happens:** instruct, preserve, regard, befall · **To what, where:** individual, her

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1767 «pg641, Dotterine, part 18: a magic egg grows into a girl, and the queen dies» 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/1767-pg641-part18/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1767-pg641-part18:e2:1
# text = Which individual was instructed to preserve silence regarding the events that had befallen her?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	individual	individual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	instructed	instruct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	preserve	preserve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	befallen	befall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **instruct** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | which individual |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **preserve** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | regard the events | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **befall** | past · perfect | the events | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | 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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the nurse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1767-pg641-part18:e2:o1:1
# text = the nurse
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a maid

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1767-pg641-part18:e2:o2:1
# text = a maid
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the queen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1767-pg641-part18:e2:o3:1
# text = the queen
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	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 king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1767-pg641-part18:e2:o4:1
# text = the king
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	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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