Exam question 1 · Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a…

Upon what condition did the serpent consent to restore the garment to the maiden?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: condition · What happens: do, restore · To what, where: serpent consent, garment, maiden

This is exam question 1 of lesson 434 «Russian Tales, The Water Snake: a girl promises to marry a snake, and her mother kills 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	4 did	obj
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 consent	det
6	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 consent	compound
7	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 restore	mark
9	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 consent	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 garment	det
11	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 restore	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 maiden	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 maiden	det
14	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 restore	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	condition	the serpent consent					tree rules
2	restore	to-infinitive	condition not said here	the garment	the maiden				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent garment=Theme to maiden=Recipient

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

Upon her return home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 return	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 return	nmod:poss
3	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 return	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return		her = she						nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Upon her promise to fetch water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 promise	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 promise	nmod:poss
3	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 fetch	mark
5	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promise	acl
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fetch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	to-infinitive		water					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	promise		her = she						nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Upon her agreeing to leave the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	SCONJ	_	3 agreeing	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 agreeing	nmod:poss
3	agreeing	agree	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 leave	mark
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 agreeing	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 village	det
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	gerund							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive		the village					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Upon her agreement to become his wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	SCONJ	_	5 become	mark
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 agreement	nmod:poss
3	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 become	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 become	mark
5	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	to-infinitive	her agreement	agreement's wife					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	agree		her = she						nom agreement «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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