Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, part 19: the child…

how was the second trip actually different?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: second trip · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 different	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 different	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trip	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 trip	amod
5	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 different	nsubj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 different	advmod
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 different	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the second trip					actually, different property	tree rules

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

The door was locked so he couldn't grab any pebbles to drop along the way

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 locked	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 locked	aux:pass
4	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 grab	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grab	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 grab	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 grab	advmod
9	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 locked	advcl
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 pebbles	det
11	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grab	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 drop	mark
13	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 grab	advcl
14	along	along	ADP	_	16 way	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lock	past · passive		the door		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	not grab	could	he	any pebbles		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme
3	drop	to-infinitive	he not said here		the way	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme along way=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The door was locked so he couldn't grab pebbles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 door	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 locked	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 locked	aux:pass
4	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 grab	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grab	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 grab	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 grab	advmod
9	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 locked	advcl
10	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past · passive		the door					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	not grab	could	he	pebbles					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme

Option 3

This time he had only bread crumbs and the door was locked tight by his mother

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 locked	nsubj:pass
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 time	acl:relcl
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 crumbs	advmod
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crumbs	compound
7	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 door	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crumbs	conj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 locked	aux:pass
12	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	tight	tight	ADV	_	12 locked	advmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 mother	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	bread crumbs and the door					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Patient
2	lock	past · passive	his mother	this time				tight property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 4

The pebbles were all gone that morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pebbles	det
2	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gone	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	cop
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 morning	mark
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the pebbles					all, gone property	tree rules

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