Test 2 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, part 19: the child…

so the stepmother wanted them gone for good, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stepmother, them · What happens: want, go · To what, where: them

This is test 2 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 wanted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stepmother	det
3	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wanted	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 good	case
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gone	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the stepmother	them = they					tree rules
2	go not said to happen	participle	them = they not said here					for good	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for good=Beneficiary

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

No, she wanted them to come back home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 come	mark
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	home	home	ADV	_	7 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	them = they					tree rules
2	come back not said to happen	to-infinitive	them = they not said here					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, she kept begging the father to take them far into the deep woods

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	begging	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 kept	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 father	det
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 begging	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 take	mark
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kept	advcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 take	obj
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 take	advmod
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 woods	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 woods	det
14	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woods	amod
15	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	she					tree rules
2	beg speech: request	gerund	she not said here		the father			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
3	take	to-infinitive	she not said here	them = they		the deep woods	far property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into wood=Destination

Option 3

Yeah, she wanted them lost in the forest forever and never found again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wanted	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obl
10	forever	forever	ADV	_	6 lost	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 found	cc
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 found	advmod
13	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wanted	conj
14	again	again	ADV	_	13 found	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	them = they				tree rules
2	lose not said to happen	participle	them = they not said here		the forest		forever property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in forest=Eventuality
3	not find	participle	she not said here			again		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she wanted them lost in the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 wanted	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	them = they					tree rules
2	lose not said to happen	participle	them = they not said here			the forest			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in forest=Eventuality

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