Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, part 19: the child…

wait, the pebbles were like proper silver money?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, pebbles · What happens: wait, be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	_	9 money	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pebbles	det
4	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 money	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 money	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 money	case
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 money	amod
8	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 money	compound
9	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
10	?	?	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	is	past	the pebbles					like proper silver money	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

Yeah, they were real silver coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 coins	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 coins	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 coins	cop
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coins	amod
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coins	compound
7	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	real silver coins					tree rules

Option 2

No, they were just plain white pebbles from the stream bed outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 pebbles	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pebbles	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pebbles	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 pebbles	advmod
6	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pebbles	amod
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pebbles	amod
8	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 bed	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bed	det
11	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bed	compound
12	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pebbles	nmod
13	outside	outside	ADV	_	12 bed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	plain white pebbles		the stream bed			tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they shone like real silver pennies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shone	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shone	nsubj
4	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 pennies	case
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pennies	amod
7	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pennies	compound
8	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shone	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	past	they					like real silver pennies	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

No, they were only pale pebbles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 pebbles	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pebbles	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pebbles	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 pebbles	advmod
6	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pebbles	amod
7	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	pale pebbles					tree rules

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