Test 11 · ★ · Grimm, Hansel and Grethel, part 4: lost again, then trappe…

bruh, how did the witch even know they were there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: do, know, be · To what, where: witch · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 know	advmod
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 there	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 there	cop
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 know	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past		the witch		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Eventuality
2	know	present				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	they		there 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

she felt them near

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	obj
4	near	near	ADV	_	2 felt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	she	them = they				near property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

she smelled the bread they had been eating in the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smelled	nsubj
2	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bread	det
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smelled	obj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 eating	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 eating	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 eating	aux
8	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 bread	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 forest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	past	she	the bread					vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bread=Stimulus
2	eat	past · perfect · progressive	they	the bread not said here		the forest			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

Option 3

she tasted their bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tasted	nsubj
2	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bread	nmod:poss
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tasted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	taste	past	she	their bread					vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme bread=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she smelled them coming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smelled	nsubj
2	smelled	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smelled	obj
4	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 smelled	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	past	she	them = they					tree rules
2	come	gerund	she not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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