Test 14 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a…

Mad, what did Grethel shout to Hansel when the witch was gone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grethel · What happens: shout, hansel, go · To what, where: witch

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 102 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Oh, If I Could But Shiver!, part 1: a simple boy is sent to learn shivering and throws a ghost down the stairs» 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shout	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 shout	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shout	aux
5	Grethel	Grethel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shout	nsubj
6	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Mad	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 Hansel	mark
8	Hansel	hansel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 shout	xcomp
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 gone	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 witch	det
11	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gone	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	aux:pass
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 Hansel	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past · do-support	Grethel		tree rules
2	hansel	to-infinitive	Grethel not said here		tree rules
3	go	past · passive		the witch	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice

the witch is dead and we are saved at last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 witch	det
2	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dead	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 saved	cc
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 saved	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 saved	aux:pass
8	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dead	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 saved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the witch					dead property	tree rules
2	save	present · passive		we		last			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at last=Asset

Option 2

we are saved from the witch's oven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 saved	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saved	aux:pass
3	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 oven	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 oven	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 witch	case
8	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present · passive		we		the witch's oven			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from oven=Source

Option 3

we are safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 safe	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 safe	cop
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	we					safe property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

we are saved

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 saved	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saved	aux:pass
3	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	present · passive		we					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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