Exam question 3 · Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast…

What condition did the shepherd impose before he would utter the toast?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition, shepherd · What happens: impose, utter · To what, where: toast

This is exam question 3 of lesson 666 «Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast» 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	6 impose	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 impose	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shepherd	det
5	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 impose	nsubj
6	impose	impose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 utter	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 utter	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 utter	aux
10	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 impose	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 toast	det
12	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 utter	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 impose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	impose	past · do-support	what condition						vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	utter speech: other	would	shepherd	the toast					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent toast=Topic

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

that the princess must be his bride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 bride	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bride	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 bride	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 bride	cop
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bride	nmod:poss
7	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	must	the princess	his bride					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

that the princess should become his wife and the king swear an oath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 become	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 become	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 become	aux
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
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 king	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wife	conj
11	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 become	xcomp
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 oath	det
13	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	should	the princess	his wife and the king					tree rules
2	swear	infinitive	the princess not said here	a oath					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

that the princess should become his wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 become	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 become	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 become	aux
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	should	the princess	his wife					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

that he would marry the princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 marry	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 marry	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 marry	aux
4	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	would	he	the princess					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient

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