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title: What condition did the king impose for the youngest princess's hand… — Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part… · tree and pragmatics
description: What condition did the king impose for the youngest princess's hand in marriage? Exam question 3 of lesson 1293 «Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go down the well, and the prince forges three crowns» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Exam question 3 · Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go d…

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What condition did the king impose for the youngest princess's hand in marriage?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** condition · **What happens:** impose · **To what, where:** marriage

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1293 «Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go down the well, and the prince forges three crowns» 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/1293-pg3454-part18/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1293-pg3454-part18:e3:1
# text = What condition did the king impose for the youngest princess's hand in marriage?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	impose	impose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **impose** | past · do-support | what condition |  |  | marriage |  | for the youngest princess's hand | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=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 {#o1}

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Three crowns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1293-pg3454-part18:e3:o1:1
# text = Three crowns
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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Presentation of three crowns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1293-pg3454-part18:e3:o2:1
# text = Presentation of three crowns
1	Presentation	presentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** |  |  | three crowns |  |  |  |  | nom presentation «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Supply of silver crowns

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1293-pg3454-part18:e3:o3:1
# text = Supply of silver crowns
1	Supply	supply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Presentation of three crowns of gold, silver and copper to the king

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1293-pg3454-part18:e3:o4:1
# text = Presentation of three crowns of gold, silver and copper to the king
1	Presentation	presentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** |  |  | three crowns of gold |  |  |  | to the king | nom presentation «act transitive»: of=patient to=obl |
| 2 | **crown** |  |  | gold |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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