Test 6 · ★ · Tales (pg503), Hansel and Grettel, part 1: lost in the woo…

Wicked, so who ended up with the bread at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: end up

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ended	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 ended	advmod
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 ended	nsubj
5	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wicked	parataxis
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 ended	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 bread	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bread	det
9	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ended	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bread	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end up	past						with the bread at the end	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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

Nobody, cos the birds ate every single crumb that Hansel had dropped on the path

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 cos	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nobody	punct
3	cos	co	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 birds	det
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ate	nsubj
6	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cos	ccomp
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 crumb	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 crumb	amod
9	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ate	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 dropped	nsubj:pass
11	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 dropped	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dropped	aux
13	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 crumb	acl:relcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 path	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 path	det
16	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	co	present	Nobody			tree rules
2	eat	past	the birds	every single crumb		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Patient
3	drop	past · perfect · passive		every single crumb	the path	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on path=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Grettel, cos Hansel had chucked his crumbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grettel	Grettel	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cos	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Grettel	punct
3	cos	co	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chucked	nsubj:pass
4	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chucked	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chucked	aux
6	chucked	chuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 crumbs	nmod:poss
8	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chucked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	past · perfect · passive		Grettel cos					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination crumb=Theme

Option 3

Hansel, because he saved his bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hansel	hansel	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saved	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 saved	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saved	nsubj
5	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Hansel	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bread	nmod:poss
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hansel	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	save	past	he	his bread					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme

Option 4

The mum, since she got the crumbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mum	det
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	6 got	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crumbs	det
8	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the mum	the crumbs					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crumb=Stimulus

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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