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description: On what condition did the hermit consent to accompany the youngest brother? Exam question 3 of lesson 1642 «Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter, part 31: three ships, a hermit and two strange helpers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depende
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# Exam question 3 · Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the K…

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On what condition did the hermit consent to accompany the youngest brother?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, accompany · **To what, where:** hermit consent, condition, youngest brother

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1642 «Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter, part 31: three ships, a hermit and two strange helpers» 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/1642-pg5615-part31/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:e3:1
# text = On what condition did the hermit consent to accompany the youngest brother?
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	accompany	accompany	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the hermit consent |  | condition |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **accompany** | to-infinitive |  | the youngest brother |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme |

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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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Receipt of half of anything obtained, plus a seat on the royal council

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:e3:o1:1
# text = Receipt of half of anything obtained, plus a seat on the royal council
1	Receipt	receipt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	1	nmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nmod	_	_
6	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **receipt** |  |  | half of anything |  |  |  |  | nom receipt «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Receipt of half of anything obtained

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:e3:o2:1
# text = Receipt of half of anything obtained
1	Receipt	receipt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	1	nmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nmod	_	_
6	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **receipt** |  |  | half of anything |  |  |  |  | nom receipt «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Receipt of half of anything obtained from the king's treasury

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:e3:o3:1
# text = Receipt of half of anything obtained from the king's treasury
1	Receipt	receipt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	1	nmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nmod	_	_
6	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	treasury	treasury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** | participle |  |  |  | the king's treasury |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from treasury=Source |
| 2 | **receipt** |  |  | half of anything |  |  |  |  | nom receipt «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Receipt of half of all the gold and property the youth obtains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1642-pg5615-part31:e3:o4:1
# text = Receipt of half of all the gold and property the youth obtains
1	Receipt	receipt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	1	nmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	property	property	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	obtains	obtain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obtain** | present | the youth | Receipt of half of all gold and property *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset receipt=Theme |
| 2 | **receipt** |  |  | half of all gold |  |  |  |  | nom receipt «act transitive»: of=patient |

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