Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the bread house an…

lowkey, why did the witch decide to cook Hansel?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey · What happens: decide, cook · To what, where: Hansel

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1473 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the bread house and the oven» 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 decide	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 decide	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 decide	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 decide	nsubj
7	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cook	mark
9	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 decide	xcomp
10	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cook	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 decide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	past · do-support	lowkey						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cook not said to happen	to-infinitive	lowkey not said here	Hansel					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hansel=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

he kept poking a bone out at her every single morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	poking	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bone	det
5	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poking	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	3 poking	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 poking	obl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 morning	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 morning	amod
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						tree rules
2	poke out	gerund	he not said here	a bone			morning	at her = she	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent bone=Instrument at she=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he stayed thin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he					thin property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

he talked too much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 talked	nsubj
2	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	he	much					vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent much=Patient

Option 4

he would not eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	would	he						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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