Exam question 2 · Grimm's Tales, The Salad, part 12: the Hunter punishes the…

Identify the agent responsible for the Hunter's transformation into a donkey.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Hunter · What happens: identify, transform · To what, where: agent

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1688 «Grimm's Tales, The Salad, part 12: the Hunter punishes the faithless trio with magic cabbage» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 agent	det
3	agent	agent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 agent	amod
5	for	for	ADP	_	9 transformation	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Hunter	det
7	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 transformation	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Hunter	case
9	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 responsible	obl
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 donkey	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 donkey	det
12	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the agent				into a donkey	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent agent=Theme
2	transform		the Hunter						nom transformation «event transitive»: poss=agent

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

The cabbage that the witch gave him to eat at the castle table tonight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cabbage	det
2	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 witch	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 witch	det
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cabbage	acl
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gave	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 eat	mark
9	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 gave	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 table	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 table	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 table	compound
13	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eat	obl
14	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the cabbage		him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	eat	to-infinitive	the cabbage not said here			the castle table	tonight		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The bad cabbage, which he ate after the cloud left him in the garden

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cabbage	det
2	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cabbage	amod
3	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ate	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 ate	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ate	nsubj
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cabbage	acl:relcl
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 cloud	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cloud	det
10	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	obl
11	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 garden	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 garden	det
15	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	the bad cabbage			after the cloud		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
2	leave	past	the bad cabbage	him = he		the garden			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in garden=Location

Option 3

A cabbage eaten at the castle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cabbage	det
2	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cabbage	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 castle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 castle	det
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	participle		a cabbage not said here		the castle			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The bad cabbage, eaten in the garden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cabbage	det
2	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cabbage	amod
3	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eaten	punct
5	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cabbage	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 garden	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 garden	det
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	participle		the bad cabbage not said here		the garden			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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