Exam question 3 · Greek myths, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 45: the fie…

What condition did Aetes stipulate before surrendering the Golden Fleece?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: stipulate, surrender · To what, where: Golden Fleece

This is exam question 3 of lesson 539 «Greek myths, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 45: the field of Ares, the Fleece and a murder» 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stipulate	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stipulate	aux
4	Aetes	aete	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stipulate	nsubj
5	stipulate	stipulate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 surrendering	mark
7	surrendering	surrender	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 stipulate	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Fleece	det
9	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Fleece	amod
10	Fleece	Fleece	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 surrendering	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stipulate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stipulate	past · do-support	what condition						tree rules
2	surrender	gerund	what condition not said here	the Golden Fleece					vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent fleece=Theme

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

That the heroes demonstrate divine origin by a superhuman task before the whole Colchian court and priests

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 the	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heroes	det
3	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 demonstrate	nsubj
4	demonstrate	demonstrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	divine	divine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 origin	amod
6	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 demonstrate	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 task	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 task	det
9	superhuman	superhuman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 task	compound
10	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 demonstrate	obl
11	before	before	ADP	_	15 court	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 court	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 court	amod
14	Colchian	Colchian	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 court	compound
15	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 demonstrate	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 priests	cc
17	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 court	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demonstrate	present	the heroes	divine origin			before the whole Colchian court and priests	by a superhuman task	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot origin=Topic

Option 2

That the heroes demonstrate divine origin by a superhuman task and then leave Colchis at once

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 the	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heroes	det
3	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 demonstrate	nsubj
4	demonstrate	demonstrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	divine	divine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 origin	amod
6	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 demonstrate	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 task	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 task	det
9	superhuman	superhuman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 task	compound
10	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 demonstrate	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 leave	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 leave	advmod
13	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 demonstrate	conj
14	Colchis	Colchis	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 leave	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demonstrate	present	the heroes	divine origin				by a superhuman task	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot origin=Topic
2	leave	infinitive	the heroes not said here	Colchis			then		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent colchis=Theme at once=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

That the heroes demonstrate divine origin by a superhuman task

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 demonstrate	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heroes	det
3	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 demonstrate	nsubj
4	demonstrate	demonstrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	divine	divine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 origin	amod
6	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 demonstrate	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 task	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 task	det
9	superhuman	superhuman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 task	compound
10	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 demonstrate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demonstrate	present	That	divine origin				by a superhuman task	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot origin=Topic

Option 4

That the heroes prove their strength in a single battle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 the	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heroes	det
3	heroes	hero	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prove	nsubj
4	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 strength	nmod:poss
6	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prove	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 battle	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 battle	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 battle	amod
10	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prove	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	the heroes	heroes's strength		a single battle			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme

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