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description: What condition did the King attach to the grant of his daughter's hand? Exam question 3 of lesson 109 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: the Tailor outwits a Giant and wins a King's dangerous task» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: t…

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What condition did the King attach to the grant of his daughter's hand?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** condition · **What happens:** do, grant · **To what, where:** King attach, hand

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 109 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Valiant Little Tailor, part 12: the Tailor outwits a Giant and wins a King's dangerous task» 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/109-pg11027-part12/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:e3:1
# text = What condition did the King attach to the grant of his daughter's hand?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	attach	attach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	grant	grant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | what condition | the King attach |  |  |  | to the grant of condition's daughter's hand | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attach=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grant** |  |  | condition's daughter's hand |  |  |  |  | nom grant «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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two giants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:e3:o1:1
# text = two giants
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the burning of a rich city

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:e3:o2:1
# text = the burning of a rich city
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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 slaying of two Giants

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:e3:o3:1
# text = the slaying of two Giants
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	slaying	slaying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	Giants	Giant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slay** |  |  | two Giants |  |  |  |  | nom slaying «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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giant slaying

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:109-pg11027-part12:e3:o4:1
# text = giant slaying
1	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	slaying	slaying	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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