Test 1 · ★ · Grimm, Hansel and Grethel, part 4: lost again, then trappe…

yo, why did Hansel keep dropping crumbs, lowkey?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hansel · What happens: keep, drop · To what, where: crumbs

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 101 «Grimm, Hansel and Grethel, part 4: lost again, then trapped by a witch in a sugar cottage» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 keep	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
5	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 keep	nsubj
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	dropping	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keep	xcomp
8	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dropping	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lowkey	punct
10	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 crumbs	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	Hansel						tree rules
2	drop	gerund	Hansel not said here	crumbs and lowkey					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme

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

to mark the trail back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 mark	mark
2	mark	mark	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trail	det
4	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mark	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 mark	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark back	to-infinitive		the trail					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent trail=Destination

Option 2

so they could follow the trail back home safely at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 follow	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 follow	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 follow	aux
4	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trail	det
6	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 follow	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	8 home	advmod
8	home	home	ADV	_	4 follow	advmod
9	safely	safely	ADV	_	4 follow	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 follow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	could	they	the trail			night	home, safely property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme

Option 3

so they could leave a trail for their father to follow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 leave	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leave	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	aux
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trail	det
6	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leave	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 father	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leave	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 follow	mark
11	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 leave	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	could	they	a trail				for their father	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent trail=Theme for father=Recipient
2	follow	to-infinitive	they not said here						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

to find the way back home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 way	det
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 find	advmod
6	home	home	ADV	_	2 find	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find back	to-infinitive		the way				home property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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