Test 12 · ★ · Tales (pg503), Hansel and Grettel, part 1: lost in the woo…

Honest, did the mum have a point about no food?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Honest mum · What happens: have · To what, where: point

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1472 «Tales (pg503), Hansel and Grettel, part 1: lost in the wood after the pebbles and the crumbs» 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	Honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mum	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honest	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mum	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mum	det
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 point	det
8	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 food	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 food	det
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 point	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the Honest mum	a point				about no food	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Patient

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, the mum had a point because the whole house had run out of food and money

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mum	det
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 point	det
7	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 run	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 house	amod
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 run	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 run	aux
13	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 had	xcomp
14	out	out	ADP	_	16 food	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 food	case
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 run	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 money	cc
18	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 food	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the mum	a point					tree rules
2	run	past · perfect · passive		the whole house		food and money			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme out food=Trajectory

Option 2

Yeah, the bread was nearly all gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 gone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bread	det
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gone	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gone	cop
6	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	7 all	advmod
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 gone	advmod
8	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bread					all, gone property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, they had only half a loaf of bread left for the whole family to share between them

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 half	advmod
6	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	8 loaf	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 loaf	det
8	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 bread	case
10	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loaf	nmod
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 bread	acl
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 family	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 family	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 family	amod
15	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 share	mark
17	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	advcl
18	between	between	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 share	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	half loaf of bread		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Patient
2	leave	participle		bread not said here	for the whole family	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for family=Recipient
3	share	to-infinitive	they not said here		between them = they	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they had only half a loaf left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 half	advmod
6	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	8 loaf	det:predet
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 loaf	det
8	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
9	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 loaf	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	they	half loaf					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Patient
2	leave	participle		half loaf not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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