Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, part 19: the child…

dude, why did Hansel keep stopping to look back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hansel · What happens: keep, stop, look back

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 743 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, part 19: the children are led into the forest and get lost» 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 keep	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
5	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 keep	nsubj
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 dude	conj
7	stopping	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keep	xcomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 look	mark
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 stopping	xcomp
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 look	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	Hansel	tree rules
2	stop	gerund	Hansel not said here	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	look back	to-infinitive	Hansel not said here	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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 was dropping crumbs to mark the trail

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 dropping	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dropping	aux
3	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dropping	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 mark	mark
6	mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dropping	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trail	det
8	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mark	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past · progressive	He	crumbs					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme
2	mark	to-infinitive	He not said here	the trail					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent trail=Destination

Option 2

He was checking if the dog followed 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 checking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 checking	aux
3	checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 followed	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 followed	nsubj
7	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 checking	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 followed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	past · progressive	He						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	follow a condition, not said to happen	past	the dog	them = they					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He was dropping pebbles so they could find home

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 dropping	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dropping	aux
3	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dropping	obj
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 find	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 find	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 find	aux
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dropping	advcl
9	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past · progressive	He	pebbles					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme
2	find	could	pebbles = pebble	home					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic

Option 4

He was looking for the father who had gone away to chop wood in the forest

The tree, 16 words

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 looking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looking	aux
3	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 father	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 father	det
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looking	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 gone	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	aux
9	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 father	acl:relcl
10	away	away	ADV	_	3 looking	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 chop	mark
12	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 looking	advcl
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chop	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 forest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	past · progressive	He			for the father; away property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for father=Theme
2	go	past · perfect	the father				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	chop	to-infinitive	He not said here	wood	the forest		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wood=Patient in forest=Location

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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