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title: Which object does the fool instruct to convey him to the royal resid… — Russian Folk-Tales, The Fool and the P… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which object does the fool instruct to convey him to the royal residence? Exam question 1 of lesson 468 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Fool and the Pike: the fool's magic orders win a palace and the King's pardon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the
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# Exam question 1 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Fool and the Pike: the fool's magi…

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Which object does the fool instruct to convey him to the royal residence?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object, fool · **What happens:** do, instruct, convey · **To what, where:** fool, royal residence

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 468 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Fool and the Pike: the fool's magic orders win a palace and the King's pardon» 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/468-pg22373-part60/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:468-pg22373-part60:e1:1
# text = Which object does the fool instruct to convey him to the royal residence?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	instruct	instruct	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	convey	convey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | which object |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **instruct** *speech: other* | present | the fool |  |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **convey** | to-infinitive | the fool *not said here* | fool | the royal residence |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to residence=Recipient |

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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 horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:468-pg22373-part60:e1:o1:1
# text = The horse
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	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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The stove

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:468-pg22373-part60:e1:o2:1
# text = The stove
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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The tub

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:468-pg22373-part60:e1:o3:1
# text = The tub
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tub	tub	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 boat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:468-pg22373-part60:e1:o4:1
# text = The boat
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boat	boat	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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