Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Brother and Sister: the Queen comes bac…

Was Grethel scared when she heard the parents talking?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she, parents · What happens: be, hear, talk · To what, where: parents

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
2	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 scared	compound
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 heard	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 parents	det
8	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heard	obj
9	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 heard	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			scared property	tree rules
2	hear	past	she	the parents		tree rules
3	talk	gerund	the parents not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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

Yeah, she cried bitterly and asked Hansel what would happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	4 cried	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 asked	cc
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cried	conj
8	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 asked	iobj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 happen	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 happen	aux
11	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cried	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	she		bitterly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past	she not said here	Hansel		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hansel=Recipient
3	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, she was brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 brave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brave	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brave	cop
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Yeah, she wept and asked Hansel what was going to happen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wept	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wept	nsubj
4	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 going	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 asked	cc
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wept	conj
7	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 asked	iobj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 going	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 going	aux
10	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 happen	mark
12	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 going	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	weep	past	she		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past	she not said here	Hansel	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent hansel=Recipient
3	go	past · progressive			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	happen	to-infinitive			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, she laughed and told Hansel not to worry about anything at all, honest

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
7	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 worry	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 worry	mark
10	worry	worry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 told	xcomp
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 anything	case
12	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 worry	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 worry	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 honest	punct
16	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 laughed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	she				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	she not said here	Hansel			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent hansel=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not worry not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here		all	about anything	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about anything=Stimulus

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