Exam question 2 · Russian Folk-Tales, The Wind and the Sack: a ram that scat…

Upon what condition did the Wind confer the ram upon the protagonist?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wind · What happens: confer · To what, where: ram

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1099 «Russian Folk-Tales, The Wind and the Sack: a ram that scatters money» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 confer	obl
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 confer	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wind	det
6	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 confer	nsubj
7	confer	confer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ram	det
9	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 confer	obj
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 protagonist	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 protagonist	det
12	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 confer	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 confer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confer	past · do-support	the Wind	the ram				upon the protagonist	tree rules

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

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Upon the condition that he avoid the tavern

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 condition	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 condition	det
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 avoid	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 avoid	nsubj
6	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 condition	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tavern	det
8	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 avoid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	infinitive	he	the tavern					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent tavern=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Upon the condition that he avoid the tavern and never drink mead again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 condition	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 condition	det
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 avoid	obl
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 avoid	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 avoid	nsubj
6	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tavern	det
8	tavern	tavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 avoid	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drink	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 drink	advmod
11	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 avoid	conj
12	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drink	obj
13	again	again	ADV	_	11 drink	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	infinitive	he	the tavern				upon the condition	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent tavern=Location
2	not drink	infinitive	he not said here	mead			again		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mead=Patient

Option 3

Upon the condition that he sell none

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 condition	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 condition	det
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 sell	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sell	nsubj
6	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 condition	acl
7	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	6 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	infinitive	he	none					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme

Option 4

Upon the promise that he visit daily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 promise	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 promise	det
3	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 visit	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 visit	nsubj
6	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promise	acl
7	daily	daily	ADV	_	6 visit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	infinitive	he	the promise not said here				daily property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Co-Agent

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