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title: What condition did the fairy impose upon the prince regarding her in… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of… · tree and pragmatics
description: What condition did the fairy impose upon the prince regarding her invitation to follow her? Exam question 4 of lesson 935 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 2: the prince enters the garden of paradise» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and prag
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# Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 2: th…

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What condition did the fairy impose upon the prince regarding her invitation to follow her?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** condition, fairy · **What happens:** impose, regard, follow, invite · **To what, where:** fairy

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 935 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 2: the prince enters the garden of paradise» 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/935-pg27200-part146/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:935-pg27200-part146:e4:1
# text = What condition did the fairy impose upon the prince regarding her invitation to follow her?
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	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	impose	impose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	invitation	invitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **impose** | past · do-support | what condition |  |  |  |  | upon the prince regard fairy's invitation | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **follow** | to-infinitive | what condition *not said here* | fairy |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **invite** |  | fairy |  |  |  |  |  | nom invitation «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 {#o1}

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obey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:935-pg27200-part146:e4:o1:1
# text = obey
1	obey	obey	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obey** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

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He must not obey it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:935-pg27200-part146:e4:o2:1
# text = He must not obey it
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **obey** | must | He | it |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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He must not follow her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:935-pg27200-part146:e4:o3:1
# text = He must not follow her
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **follow** | must | He | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He should not answer her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:935-pg27200-part146:e4:o4:1
# text = He should not answer her
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **answer** *speech: assert* | should | He |  | her *= she* |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |

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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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