Exam question 1 · Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 3…

Upon what condition did the husband undertake to refrain from looking back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: husband · What happens: undertake, refrain, look back

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1233 «Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 34: a boy warns the animals on the way to the miller's wedding, and they ignore him» 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 undertake	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 undertake	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 husband	det
6	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 undertake	nsubj
7	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 refrain	mark
9	refrain	refrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 undertake	xcomp
10	from	from	SCONJ	_	11 looking	mark
11	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 refrain	advcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 looking	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 undertake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	undertake	past · do-support	the husband	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	refrain	to-infinitive	the husband not said here	vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look back	gerund	the husband not said here	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

until he had stepped within the threshold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	until	until	SCONJ	_	4 stepped	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stepped	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stepped	aux
4	stepped	step	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	within	within	ADP	_	7 threshold	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 threshold	det
7	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stepped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step	past · perfect · passive		he				within the threshold	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

until the wedding feast had ended

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	until	until	ADP	_	4 feast	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 feast	det
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feast	compound
4	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ended	obl
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ended	aux
6	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	past · perfect					until the wedding feast		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

until he was outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	until	until	SCONJ	_	4 outside	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 outside	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 outside	cop
4	outside	outside	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					outside property	tree rules

Option 4

until he had crossed the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	until	until	SCONJ	_	4 crossed	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crossed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crossed	aux
4	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	past · perfect	he	the river					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient

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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