Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the bread house an…

real talk, how was their dad doing while they were gone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: be, do, go · To what, where: dad, they

This is test 12 · ★ 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	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dad	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 dad	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dad	cop
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 dad	nmod:poss
7	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	appos
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 dad	acl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 gone	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gone	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	aux:pass
12	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 doing	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		their dad	tree rules
2	do	gerund	their dad not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past · passive		they	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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 missed them terribly and wept every night in bed

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 missed	nsubj
2	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 missed	obj
4	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	2 missed	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wept	cc
6	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 missed	conj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wept	obl:unmarked
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 bed	case
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	past	he	them = they				terribly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	weep	past	he not said here				night	in bed	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in bed=Theme

Option 2

he had gone out searching the wood every day for them

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	3 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gone	aux
3	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 gone	compound:prt
5	searching	search	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 gone	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 searching	obj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 searching	obl:unmarked
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 searching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past · perfect	he						vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	search	gerund	he not said here	the wood			day	for them = they	vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent wood=Location for they=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

not happy at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 happy	advmod
2	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 happy	obl

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

Option 4

cheerful as ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 ever	case
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 cheerful	obl

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

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