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title: Which garment did Ludovine instruct the soldier to retrieve from the… — Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which garment did Ludovine instruct the soldier to retrieve from the first closet? Exam question 3 of lesson 1898 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent with a woman's head asks for help» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Exam question 3 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent w…

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Which garment did Ludovine instruct the soldier to retrieve from the first closet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** garment · **What happens:** instruct, retrieve · **To what, where:** soldier, first closet

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1898 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent with a woman's head asks for help» 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/1898-pg7277-part35/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:e3:1
# text = Which garment did Ludovine instruct the soldier to retrieve from the first closet?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Ludovine	Ludovine	PROPN	NNP	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	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	retrieve	retrieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	closet	closet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	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 | which garment | the soldier |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient |
| 2 | **retrieve** | to-infinitive | which garment *not said here* |  |  | the first closet |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from closet=Source |

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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 tunic of orange velvet with silver buttons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:e3:o1:1
# text = A tunic of orange velvet with silver buttons
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tunic	tunic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	buttons	button	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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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 tunic of orange velvet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:e3:o2:1
# text = A tunic of orange velvet
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tunic	tunic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	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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A shirt of green silk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:e3:o3:1
# text = A shirt of green silk
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A long tunic of orange velvet from the first closet of the tower

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1898-pg7277-part35:e3:o4:1
# text = A long tunic of orange velvet from the first closet of the tower
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tunic	tunic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	orange	orange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
10	closet	closet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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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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