Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the broth…

What condition did the lion set before he would give up the rose?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: do, give up · To what, where: lion set, rose

This is exam question 2 of lesson 768 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the brothers save the princess and share the reward» 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	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 set	det
5	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	compound
6	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 give	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 give	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 give	aux
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 set	acl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 give	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rose	det
13	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 give	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	what condition	the lion set					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent set=Eventuality
2	give up	would	condition	the rose					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Source

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

Whatever first meets him at home when he returns from the long journey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 meets	nsubj
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Whatever	advmod
3	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 meets	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meets	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 returns	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 returns	nsubj
9	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 meets	advcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 journey	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 journey	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 journey	amod
13	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 returns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present	Whatever	him = he		home			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
2	return	present	he			the long journey			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from journey=Initial_Location

Option 2

Whatever greets him at his door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 greets	nsubj
2	greets	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 greets	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 door	nmod:poss
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 greets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	present	Whatever		him = he	his door			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Whichever servant or beast first comes running out to greet him at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whichever	whichever	DET	PronType=Rel	2 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	nsubj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 beast	cc
4	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 servant	conj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 comes	advmod
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 comes	xcomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 running	compound:prt
9	to	to	PART	_	10 greet	mark
10	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 running	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 greet	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 home	case
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 greet	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	whichever servant or beast			first property	tree rules
2	run out	gerund	whichever servant or beast not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	whichever servant or beast not said here	him = he	home		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Whatever first meets him at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 meets	obj
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 meets	advmod
3	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 meets	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present		Whatever		home		first property	tree rules

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