When we got to the hall, the concert started.

[sitifan]

1. When we got to the hall, the concert started.
2. The concert started as soon as we got to the hall.
Source: Ting-Chi Tang, English Question Box: An Introduction to Linguistic Analysis of English, p207.
3. We got to the hall, and then the concert started.
Source: my own sentence.

Which is closer to #1 in meaning, #2 or #3?

 

[5jj]

#3.

Neither #1 nor #3 has the sense of simultaneity conveyed by 'as soon as'.