Exam question 1 · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 42: Jem becomes…

To what extent did the cobbler's violent treatment of the dwarf Jem determine his subsequent progress, as narrated in this part?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: violent treatment, cobbler, treatment · What happens: determine, narrate, treat, progress · To what, where: subsequent progress, part, dwarf Jem

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1791 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 42: Jem becomes the duke's cook and meets a talking goose» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 determine	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cobbler	det
6	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 treatment	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 cobbler	case
8	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 treatment	amod
9	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 determine	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 Jem	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Jem	det
12	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Jem	amod
13	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 treatment	nmod
14	determine	determine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 progress	nmod:poss
16	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 progress	amod
17	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 determine	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 narrated	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 narrated	mark
20	narrated	narrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 determine	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 part	case
22	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 part	det
23	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 narrated	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	determine	past · do-support	the cobbler's violent treatment of the dwarf Jem	treatment's subsequent progress		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent progress=Topic
2	narrate speech: other	participle	the cobbler's violent treatment of the dwarf Jem not said here		this part	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	treat		the cobbler	the dwarf Jem		nom treatment «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient
4	progress		treatment			nom progress «act intransitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The cobbler's violence drove Jem from his lodging, and his subsequent employment in the palace kitchen followed from it

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cobbler	det
2	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 violence	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 cobbler	case
4	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drove	nsubj
5	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 drove	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 lodging	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lodging	nmod:poss
9	lodging	lodging	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drove	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 employment	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 employment	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 employment	nmod:poss
13	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 employment	amod
14	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drove	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 kitchen	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 kitchen	det
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kitchen	compound
18	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 employment	nmod
19	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 kitchen	acl
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 followed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	past	the cobbler's violence	Jem	violence's lodging	violence's subsequent employment in the palace kitchen obl	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jem=Theme from lodging=Trajectory
2	follow	participle		the palace kitchen not said here	kitchen		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent from it=Trajectory
3	employ		violence		the palace kitchen		nom employment «state transitive»: poss=agent in=place

Option 2

The cobbler's violence caused Jem to leave the town, but his later success in the palace owed nothing to it

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cobbler	det
2	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 violence	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 cobbler	case
4	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caused	nsubj
5	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 caused	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 leave	mark
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 caused	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 town	det
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 owed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 owed	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 success	nmod:poss
14	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 success	advmod
15	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 owed	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 palace	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 palace	det
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 success	nmod
19	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caused	conj
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 owed	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 owed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cause	past	the cobbler's violence	Jem		tree rules
2	leave	to-infinitive	Jem not said here	the town		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme
3	owe	past	violence's success in the palace	nothing	palace	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme to it=Goal

Option 3

Not at all, it was irrelevant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 all	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 irrelevant	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 irrelevant	cop
7	irrelevant	irrelevant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 all	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					irrelevant property	tree rules

Option 4

The violence was a minor event that had no bearing on Jem's later employment in the palace kitchen

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 violence	det
2	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 event	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 event	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 event	det
5	minor	minor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 event	amod
6	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 event	acl:relcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 bearing	det
10	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	15 employment	case
12	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 employment	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Jem	case
14	later	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 employment	amod
15	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 kitchen	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 kitchen	det
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kitchen	compound
19	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the violence	a minor event			tree rules
2	have	past	a minor event	no bearing	Jem's later employment	in the palace kitchen	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bearing=Patient
3	employ		Jem				nom employment «state transitive»: poss=agent

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