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title: Which condition did the suitor Hans formally stipulate before consen… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Els… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which condition did the suitor Hans formally stipulate before consenting to the marriage? Exam question 1 of lesson 757 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick-axe and wins Hans» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick…

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Which condition did the suitor Hans formally stipulate before consenting to the marriage?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** condition, Hans · **What happens:** do, stipulate, consent · **To what, where:** suitor

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 757 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie: Elsie weeps over a pick-axe and wins Hans» 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/757-pg2591-part33/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:e1:1
# text = Which condition did the suitor Hans formally stipulate before consenting to the marriage?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	suitor	suitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	formally	formally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	stipulate	stipulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	consenting	consent	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | which condition | the suitor |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suitor=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stipulate** | infinitive | Hans | the suitor *not said here* |  |  |  | formally *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **consent** | gerund | Hans *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the marriage | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to marriage=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 Elsie should be genuinely intelligent and never weep in cellars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:e1:o1:1
# text = That Elsie should be genuinely intelligent and never weep in cellars
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	genuinely	genuinely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	cellars	cellar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | should | that Elsie |  |  |  |  | genuinely, intelligent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **weep** | infinitive | that Elsie *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in cellars | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cellar=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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That Elsie should be genuinely intelligent, graceful, and well-read in all the old books of the village

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:e1:o2:1
# text = That Elsie should be genuinely intelligent, graceful, and well-read in all the old books of the village
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	genuinely	genuinely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | should | that Elsie |  |  |  |  | genuinely, intelligent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | that Elsie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **read** | participle | that Elsie *not said here* |  |  | all old books of the village |  | well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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That Elsie should be genuinely intelligent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:e1:o3:1
# text = That Elsie should be genuinely intelligent
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	genuinely	genuinely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	intelligent	intelligent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | should | that Elsie |  |  |  |  | genuinely, intelligent *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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That Elsie should be quite hardworking

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:757-pg2591-part33:e1:o4:1
# text = That Elsie should be quite hardworking
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hardworking	hardworking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | should |  | hardworking |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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