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title: What condition did Aetes stipulate before surrendering the Golden Fl… — Greek myths, Jason and the Golden Flee… · tree and pragmatics
description: What condition did Aetes stipulate before surrendering the Golden Fleece? Exam question 3 of lesson 539 «Greek myths, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 45: the field of Ares, the Fleece and a murder» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the questio
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# Exam question 3 · Greek myths, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 45: the fie…

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What condition did Aetes stipulate before surrendering the Golden Fleece?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** condition · **What happens:** stipulate, surrender · **To what, where:** Golden Fleece

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 539 «Greek myths, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 45: the field of Ares, the Fleece and a murder» 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/539-pg22381-part45/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:539-pg22381-part45:e3:1
# text = What condition did Aetes stipulate before surrendering the Golden Fleece?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Aetes	aete	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stipulate	stipulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	surrendering	surrender	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stipulate** | past · do-support | what condition |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **surrender** | gerund | what condition *not said here* | the Golden Fleece |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent fleece=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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That the heroes demonstrate divine origin by a superhuman task before the whole Colchian court and priests

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:539-pg22381-part45:e3:o1:1
# text = That the heroes demonstrate divine origin by a superhuman task before the whole Colchian court and priests
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	demonstrate	demonstrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	superhuman	superhuman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Colchian	Colchian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demonstrate** | present | the heroes | divine origin |  |  | before the whole Colchian court and priests | by a superhuman task | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot origin=Topic |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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That the heroes demonstrate divine origin by a superhuman task and then leave Colchis at once

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:539-pg22381-part45:e3:o2:1
# text = That the heroes demonstrate divine origin by a superhuman task and then leave Colchis at once
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	demonstrate	demonstrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	superhuman	superhuman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	Colchis	Colchis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demonstrate** | present | the heroes | divine origin |  |  |  | by a superhuman task | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot origin=Topic |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive | the heroes *not said here* | Colchis |  |  | then |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent colchis=Theme at once=Location |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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That the heroes demonstrate divine origin by a superhuman task

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:539-pg22381-part45:e3:o3:1
# text = That the heroes demonstrate divine origin by a superhuman task
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	demonstrate	demonstrate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	divine	divine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	superhuman	superhuman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demonstrate** | present | That | divine origin |  |  |  | by a superhuman task | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot origin=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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That the heroes prove their strength in a single battle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:539-pg22381-part45:e3:o4:1
# text = That the heroes prove their strength in a single battle
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	prove	prove	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | present | the heroes | heroes's strength |  | a single battle |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=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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