Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Brother and Sister: the Queen comes bac…

Ngl, Hansel's dad wanted to leave the kids in the woods, didn't he?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, dad · What happens: want, leave, not do · To what, where: kids, woods

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dad	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Hansel	case
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	nsubj
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 leave	mark
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanted	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kids	det
10	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 leave	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 woods	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woods	det
13	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 leave	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 did	punct
15	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wanted	conj
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 did	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 did	nsubj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	want	past	Ngl			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ngl not said here	the kids	the woods	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent kid=Theme in wood=Location
3	not do	past	dad			vn act-114-1 «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

Yeah, that was the dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 dad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dad	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 dad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dad	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dad	det
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	the dad					tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, it was the dad who begged to leave them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 dad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dad	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dad	det
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 begged	nsubj
8	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dad	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 leave	mark
10	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 begged	xcomp
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 leave	obj
12	out	out	ADP	_	10 leave	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the dad	tree rules
2	beg speech: request	past	the dad		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leave out not said to happen	to-infinitive	the dad not said here	them = they	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Nah, it was the mum who wanted it, not him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 mum	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mum	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mum	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mum	det
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mum	acl:relcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wanted	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 him	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 him	advmod
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the mum					tree rules
2	want	past	the mum	it				him = he obl	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, that was the stepmother, the dad didn't want to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 stepmother	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 stepmother	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stepmother	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stepmother	det
6	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 want	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stepmother	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dad	det
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 want	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 want	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 want	advmod
12	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	12 want	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	the stepmother					tree rules
2	not want	past · do-support	the stepmother						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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