Test 2 · ★ · Tales (pg503), Hansel and Grettel, part 1: lost in the woo…

Be honest, was the mum well mean or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: honest mum · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: honest mum

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	cop
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mum	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 honest	punct
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mum	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mum	det
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mean	nsubj
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 mean	advmod
8	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 mean	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive			honest property	tree rules
2	is a	past		the honest mum		tree rules
3	mean	present	the honest mum		well property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Kind of, she was just hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	1 Kind	fixed
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hungry	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hungry	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hungry	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 hungry	advmod
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Kind	conj

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

Option 2

Yeah, she was properly nasty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 nasty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nasty	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nasty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nasty	cop
5	properly	properly	ADV	_	6 nasty	advmod
6	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Dead mean, she wanted them gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 mean	advmod
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mean	ccomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	obj
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	imperative	you not said here		dead property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	want	past	she	them = they		tree rules
3	go not said to happen	participle	them = they not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Quite cruel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quite	quite	ADV	_	2 cruel	advmod
2	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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