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description: What condition did the miller specify before he would permit the marriage? Exam question 2 of lesson 859 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to the eagle's nest» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti
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# Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to…

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What condition did the miller specify before he would permit the marriage?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** condition, miller · **What happens:** specify, permit · **To what, where:** marriage

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 859 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to the eagle's nest» 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/859-pg27200-part70/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:e2:1
# text = What condition did the miller specify before he would permit the marriage?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	specify	specify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	permit	permit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **specify** | past · do-support | what condition |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **permit** | would | miller | the marriage |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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 {#o1}

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the return of his lost horse and cow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:e2:o1:1
# text = the return of his lost horse and cow
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **return** |  | his lost horse and cow |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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

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the delivery of a live young eaglet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:e2:o2:1
# text = the delivery of a live young eaglet
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	delivery	delivery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	live	live	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	eaglet	eaglet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deliver** |  |  | a live young eaglet |  |  |  |  | nom delivery «act transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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gold for the wedding

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:e2:o3:1
# text = gold for the wedding
1	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the payment of a large dowry

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:859-pg27200-part70:e2:o4:1
# text = the payment of a large dowry
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	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dowry	dowry	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 large dowry |  |  |  |  | nom payment «possession 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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