Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Brother and Sister: the Queen comes bac…

So why did Hansel keep stopping on the way out?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hansel · What happens: keep, stop · To what, where: way

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 100 «Grimm's Tales, The Brother and Sister: the Queen comes back to life and the witch is punished» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 keep	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 keep	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
4	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	stopping	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopping	obl
10	out	out	ADV	_	9 way	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	Hansel						tree rules
2	stop	gerund	Hansel not said here			the way			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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

He kept stopping to look at the birds and the trees, and he was dropping pebbles to find the way back later

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stopping	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stopping	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 birds	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 birds	det
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 trees	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 birds	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dropping	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dropping	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dropping	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dropping	aux
16	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kept	advcl
17	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 dropping	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 find	mark
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 dropping	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 find	obj
22	back	back	ADV	_	19 find	advmod
23	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	He			tree rules
2	stop	gerund	He not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	look	to-infinitive	He not said here		at the birds and the trees	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bird=Theme
4	drop	past · progressive	he	pebbles		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme
5	find back	to-infinitive	he not said here	the way	late property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He was secretly dropping white pebbles along the path so that he and Grethel could find their way home again

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropping	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dropping	aux
3	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	4 dropping	advmod
4	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pebbles	amod
6	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dropping	obj
7	along	along	ADP	_	9 path	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 path	det
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropping	obl
10	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 find	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 find	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Grethel	cc
14	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 he	conj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 find	aux
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dropping	advcl
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 way	nmod:poss
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 find	obj
19	home	home	ADV	_	16 find	advmod
20	again	again	ADV	_	16 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past · progressive	He	white pebbles		the path		secretly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme along path=Destination
2	find	could	he	pebbles's way			again	home property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

Option 3

He was leaving pebbles to mark the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 leaving	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 leaving	aux
3	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leaving	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 mark	mark
6	mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 leaving	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mark	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · progressive	He	pebbles					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme
2	mark	to-infinitive	He not said here	the way					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was dropping pebbles to find the way back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dropping	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dropping	aux
3	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dropping	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 find	mark
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dropping	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	6 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past · progressive	He	pebbles					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme
2	find back	to-infinitive	He not said here	the way					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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