Test 7 · ★ · Grimm, Hansel and Grethel, part 4: lost again, then trappe…

ok but why couldn't Hansel see the crumbs at night?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: not hansel, see · To what, where: crumbs

This is test 7 · ★ 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	6 Hansel	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 Hansel	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 Hansel	advmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 Hansel	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 Hansel	advmod
6	Hansel	hansel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Hansel	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crumbs	det
9	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 see	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 Hansel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hansel	could							tree rules
2	see	infinitive		the crumbs			night		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crumb=Stimulus

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

rain washed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 washed	nsubj
2	washed	wash	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 washed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	past	rain	them = they					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

they were too small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 small	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the birds ate them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ate	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the birds	them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

wind blew them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blew	nsubj
2	blew	blow	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 blew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	wind	them = they					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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