Exam question 4 · Grimm's Tales, The Salad, part 12: the Hunter punishes the…

Determine the outcome of the Hunter's clemency toward the transformed maiden and servant.

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

This is exam question 4 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 outcome	det
3	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 clemency	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Hunter	det
6	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 clemency	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Hunter	case
8	clemency	clemency	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 outcome	nmod
9	toward	toward	ADP	_	12 maiden	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 maiden	det
11	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 maiden	amod
12	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 clemency	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 servant	cc
14	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 maiden	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the outcome of the Hunter's clemency toward the transformed maiden and servant					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outcome=Topic
2	transform	participle							vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

They regain human form after eating the good cabbage that the Hunter brought from the garden for them both

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 regain	nsubj
2	regain	regain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 form	amod
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 regain	obj
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 eating	mark
6	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 regain	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cabbage	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cabbage	amod
9	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eating	obj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 brought	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Hunter	det
12	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 brought	nsubj
13	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cabbage	acl:relcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 garden	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 garden	det
16	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	obl
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brought	obl
19	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	13 brought	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	regain	present	They	human form			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
2	eat	gerund	They not said here	the good cabbage			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabbage=Patient
3	bring	past	the Hunter	both	the garden	for them = they	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent both=Theme from garden=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They regain human form after eating the good cabbage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 regain	nsubj
2	regain	regain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 form	amod
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 regain	obj
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 eating	mark
6	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 regain	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cabbage	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cabbage	amod
9	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	regain	present	They	human form					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme
2	eat	gerund	They not said here	the good cabbage					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabbage=Patient

Option 3

They turn back after eating cabbage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 turn	advmod
4	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 eating	mark
5	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 turn	advcl
6	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	present	They						vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	eat	gerund	They not said here	cabbage					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabbage=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They are forgiven and return to the castle to work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forgiven	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 forgiven	aux:pass
3	forgiven	forgive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 return	cc
5	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forgiven	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 castle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 castle	det
8	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 return	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 work	mark
10	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 return	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	forgive	present · passive	They		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	return	infinitive		to the castle result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result
3	work	to-infinitive			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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