Test 13 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Brother and Sister: the Queen comes bac…

Did Hansel reckon they'd be alright in the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hansel, they · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: end

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reckon	aux
2	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 reckon	nsubj
3	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 alright	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 alright	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 alright	cop
7	alright	alright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reckon	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 end	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 alright	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	Hansel						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	they				in the end	alright property	tree rules

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

Nah, he said they were doomed to die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 doomed	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doomed	aux:pass
7	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 die	mark
9	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 doomed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	doom	past · passive		they	tree rules
3	die	to-infinitive			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Nah, he told her they were going to die in the woods, and that nobody would ever come looking for them again

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 going	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 told	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 die	mark
10	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 going	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 woods	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woods	det
13	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 die	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 come	cc
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 come	mark
17	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	20 come	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 come	advmod
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	conj
21	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 come	xcomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 looking	obl
24	again	again	ADV	_	21 looking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he	her = she			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go	past · progressive	they				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	die	to-infinitive	they not said here			in the woods	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in wood=Attribute
4	come	would	nobody		ever		tree rules
5	look	gerund	nobody not said here		again	for woods = wood	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he told Grethel God wouldn't forsake them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 God	compound
6	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 forsake	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 forsake	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 forsake	advmod
9	forsake	forsake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	ccomp
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 forsake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	he						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not forsake	would	Grethel God	them = they					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he said God would not abandon them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 abandon	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 abandon	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 abandon	advmod
8	abandon	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 abandon	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not abandon	would	God	them = they					vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme they=Source

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