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title: Which instruction did Lucky Luck's mother give the prince concerning… — Grimm, Lucky Luck, part 3: the prince… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which instruction did Lucky Luck's mother give the prince concerning his conduct? Exam question 4 of lesson 663 «Grimm, Lucky Luck, part 3: the prince seeks Lucky Luck to save his servant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea
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# Exam question 4 · Grimm, Lucky Luck, part 3: the prince seeks Lucky Luck to…

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Which instruction did Lucky Luck's mother give the prince concerning his conduct?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** instruction, mother, prince · **What happens:** do, give, concern, conduct · **To what, where:** prince, conduct

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 663 «Grimm, Lucky Luck, part 3: the prince seeks Lucky Luck to save his servant» 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/663-pg2435-part3/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:663-pg2435-part3:e4:1
# text = Which instruction did Lucky Luck's mother give the prince concerning his conduct?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	instruction	instruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Lucky	Lucky	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Luck	Luck	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	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** | past | which instruction |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | present | Lucky Luck's mother | the prince |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme |
| 3 | **concern** | gerund | the prince *not said here* | instruction's conduct |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus conduct=Experiencer |
| 4 | **conduct** |  | instruction |  |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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To dig in silence and to speak only after the meal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:663-pg2435-part3:e4:o1:1
# text = To dig in silence and to speak only after the meal
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	dig	dig	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	speak	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | silence |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | after the meal |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To dig in silence

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:663-pg2435-part3:e4:o2:1
# text = To dig in silence
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	dig	dig	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | silence |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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To eat in silence and to sleep at dawn

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:663-pg2435-part3:e4:o3:1
# text = To eat in silence and to sleep at dawn
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | silence |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | dawn |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To pray before the work and to rest at noon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:663-pg2435-part3:e4:o4:1
# text = To pray before the work and to rest at noon
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	pray	pray	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	rest	rest	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | before the work |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **rest** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | noon |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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