Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the bread house an…
dead serious, how did Gretel finish the witch off?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Gretel · What happens: finish off · To what, where: witch
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 serious | amod |
| 2 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 finish | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 finish | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 finish | aux |
| 6 | Gretel | Gretel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 finish | nsubj |
| 7 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 serious | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 witch | det |
| 9 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 finish | obj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 finish | compound:prt |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 serious | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish off | past · do-support | Gretel | the witch | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector witch=Eventuality |
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
locked her in the cellar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | locked | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 locked | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 cellar | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cellar | det |
| 5 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 locked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | past | her = she | the cellar | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
Option 2
tossed her in the pot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tossed | toss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 tossed | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 pot | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pot | det |
| 5 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 tossed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toss | past | her = she | the pot | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme in pot=Destination |
Option 3
burned her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 burned | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past | her = she | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
shoved her in the oven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoved | shove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 shoved | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 oven | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 oven | det |
| 5 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 shoved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shove | past | her = she | the oven | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme in oven=Destination |
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