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title: Under what condition did the old grave woman agree to assist the ber… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Under what condition did the old grave woman agree to assist the bereaved mother? Exam question 3 of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tre
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a m…

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Under what condition did the old grave woman agree to assist the bereaved mother?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** old grave woman · **What happens:** agree, assist, bereave · **To what, where:** bereaved mother

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 301 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 2: a mother follows Death through the snow to win back her child» 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/301-pg1597-part28/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:e3:1
# text = Under what condition did the old grave woman agree to assist the bereaved mother?
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
3	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	grave	grave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	agree	agree	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	assist	assist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	bereaved	bereave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past · do-support | the old grave woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent what=Co-Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **assist** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the old grave woman *not said here* |  | the bereaved mother |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **bereave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: 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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the gift of silver coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:e3:o1:1
# text = the gift of silver coins
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gift** |  |  | silver coins |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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her black hair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:e3:o2:1
# text = her black hair
1	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the payment of a gold ring

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:e3:o3:1
# text = the payment of a gold ring
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	payment	payment	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	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** |  |  | a gold ring |  |  |  |  | nom payment «possession transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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the exchange of her black hair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:301-pg1597-part28:e3:o4:1
# text = the exchange of her black hair
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exchange** |  |  | her black hair |  |  |  |  | nom exchange «phenomenon 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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