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title: Upon what condition did the Swineherd consent to relinquish the pot? — Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon what condition did the Swineherd consent to relinquish the pot? Exam question 1 of lesson 1734 «Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince shows his true self and the Princess is sent away to sing outside» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the 
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# Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince shows his true self…

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Upon what condition did the Swineherd consent to relinquish the pot?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** condition · **What happens:** do, relinquish · **To what, where:** Swineherd consent, pot

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1734 «Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince shows his true self and the Princess is sent away to sing outside» 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/1734-pg640-part58/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1734-pg640-part58:e1:1
# text = Upon what condition did the Swineherd consent to relinquish the pot?
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
3	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	relinquish	relinquish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | condition | the Swineherd consent |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **relinquish** | to-infinitive | condition *not said here* | the pot |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent pot=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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twenty kisses from the Princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1734-pg640-part58:e1:o1:1
# text = twenty kisses from the Princess
1	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kisses	kiss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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ten kisses from the Princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1734-pg640-part58:e1:o2:1
# text = ten kisses from the Princess
1	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kisses	kiss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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ten kisses from the Princess and her household

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1734-pg640-part58:e1:o3:1
# text = ten kisses from the Princess and her household
1	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kisses	kiss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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ten kisses from the Empress

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1734-pg640-part58:e1:o4:1
# text = ten kisses from the Empress
1	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	kisses	kiss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Empress	Empress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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