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description: Which condition did the King of the foreign country attach to his consent to the marriage? Exam question 2 of lesson 1739 «Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone Boat, part 63: a Witch swaps places with the Queen and steals her away on a stone boat» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with t
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# Exam question 2 · Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone Boat, part 63: a Witc…

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Which condition did the King of the foreign country attach to his consent to the marriage?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** condition, King · **What happens:** attach, consent

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1739 «Wonder Tales, The Witch in the Stone Boat, part 63: a Witch swaps places with the Queen and steals her away on a stone boat» 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/1739-pg640-part63/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1739-pg640-part63:e2:1
# text = Which condition did the King of the foreign country attach to his consent to the marriage?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	attach	attach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attach** | past · do-support | which condition |  |  |  |  | to King's consent; to the marriage | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to consent=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **consent** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom consent «communication 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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that Sigurd should rule there until his death

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1739-pg640-part63:e2:o1:1
# text = that Sigurd should rule there until his death
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	until	until	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | should | Sigurd |  |  | there | until Sigurd's death |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **die** |  | Sigurd |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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

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that Sigurd remain there as long as he could

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1739-pg640-part63:e2:o2:1
# text = that Sigurd remain there as long as he could
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	remain	remain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Sigurd |  |  |  |  | long, there *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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that he stay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1739-pg640-part63:e2:o3:1
# text = that he stay
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | infinitive | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
that Sigurd stay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1739-pg640-part63:e2:o4:1
# text = that Sigurd stay
1	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	Sigurd	Sigurd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present | Sigurd |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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