Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, part 19: the child…

wait, what were they eating at the very end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, they · What happens: wait, eat · To what, where: end

This is test 12 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eating	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 eating	obj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 eating	aux
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eating	nsubj
6	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 wait	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 end	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 end	advmod
10	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eating	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	past · progressive	they				at the end		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 · ← Mova's choice

Two or three nuts from the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 nuts	nummod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 three	cc
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Two	conj
4	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 trees	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trees	det
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 nuts	nmod

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

Option 2

A few mushrooms from the forest floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mushrooms	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mushrooms	amod
3	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 floor	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 floor	compound
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mushrooms	nmod

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

Option 3

Two or three wild berries they picked from the forest floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 berries	nummod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 three	cc
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Two	conj
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 berries	amod
5	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 picked	nsubj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 picked	nsubj
7	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 floor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 floor	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 floor	compound
11	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 picked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past	Two wild berries					from the forest floor	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent from floor=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Two or three berries from the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 berries	nummod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 three	cc
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Two	conj
4	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 berries	nmod

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

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/743-pg2591-part19/t12/