Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the bread house an…

vibe check, how did they cross the lake?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: cross · To what, where: lake

This is test 9 · ★ 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	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 check	compound
2	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cross	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 cross	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cross	aux
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cross	nsubj
7	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 check	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lake	det
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cross	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	past · do-support	they	the lake					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=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

by riding a big swan straight across the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 riding	mark
2	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 swan	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 swan	amod
5	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 riding	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 water	advmod
7	across	across	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 riding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	gerund		a big swan		the water			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent swan=Theme across water=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

by walking on the frozen lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 walking	mark
2	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 lake	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lake	det
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lake	amod
6	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund				the frozen lake			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lake=Trajectory
2	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

on the white duck's back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	6 back	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 duck	det
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 duck	amod
4	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 duck	case
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

on a giant fish's back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	on	on	ADP	_	6 back	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fish	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fish	amod
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 fish	case
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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