Test 13 · ★ · Tales (pg503), Hansel and Grettel, part 1: lost in the woo…

Sorted, so the kids got back home the first time?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: sort, get back

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 got	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kids	det
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sorted	conj
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 got	advmod
8	home	home	ADV	_	6 got	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obl:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sorted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	participle							vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	get back	past	the kids				time	home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Yeah, they came back at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 dawn	case
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	they				dawn		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, at daybreak they knocked on the door of the house and their father let them in with joy

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 daybreak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 daybreak	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 daybreak	case
4	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocked	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knocked	nsubj
6	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocked	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 door	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 let	cc
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 let	nsubj
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 knocked	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	16 let	compound:prt
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 joy	case
20	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 let	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past	they					on the door of the house; at daybreak	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at daybreak=Patient
2	let in	infinitive	their father	them = they				with joy	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, at daybreak they knocked on the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 knocked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 knocked	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 daybreak	case
4	daybreak	daybreak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocked	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knocked	nsubj
6	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 door	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 door	det
9	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past	they					on the door; at daybreak	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at daybreak=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, the father heard them at night and went out to find them in the wood at dawn

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 heard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 father	det
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 find	mark
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 went	advcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 find	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 wood	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 find	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 dawn	case
19	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wood	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the father	them = they		night		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	go out	past	the father not said here				out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	to-infinitive	the father not said here	them = they	the wood at dawn			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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