Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young st…

Under which condition did the mother consent to the young storks' vengeance?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: mother consent, condition

This is exam question 4 of lesson 993 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young storks learn to fly and plan revenge» 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	Under	under	ADP	_	3 condition	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 condition	det
3	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 consent	det
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 consent	compound
7	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	13 vengeance	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 storks	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 storks	amod
11	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 vengeance	nmod:poss
12	'	's	PART	_	11 storks	case
13	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the mother consent		which condition		to the young storks's vengeance	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Eventuality

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

Only after the review had concluded and the storks rested

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 concluded	advmod
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 concluded	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 review	det
4	review	review	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 concluded	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 concluded	aux
6	concluded	conclude	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rested	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 storks	det
9	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rested	nsubj
10	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 concluded	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conclude	past · perfect · passive		the review					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	rest	past	the storks						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Only after the review had concluded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 review	advmod
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 review	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 review	det
4	review	review	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 concluded	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 concluded	aux
6	concluded	conclude	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conclude	past · perfect · passive		the review					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Only once the winter had passed by

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 passed	advmod
2	once	once	SCONJ	_	6 passed	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 winter	det
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	aux
6	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	6 passed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass by	past · perfect · passive		the winter					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Only when the boys were gone away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	6 gone	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 gone	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gone	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux:pass
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	past · passive		the boys				away property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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