Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, part 19: the child…

that's mental, the birds just ate all the crumbs?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, birds · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: crumbs

This is test 5 · ★ 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	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 mental	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mental	cop
3	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ate	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ate	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 ate	advmod
8	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mental	conj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 crumbs	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 crumbs	det
11	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ate	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 mental	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					mental property	tree rules
2	eat	past	the birds	all crumbs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, loads of birds gobbled every single one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 loads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gobbled	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 birds	case
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loads	nmod
6	gobbled	gobble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 one	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 one	amod
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gobbled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gobble	participle	loads of birds	every single one					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, loads of hungry birds gobbled every single one up quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 loads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gobbled	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 birds	case
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 birds	amod
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gobbled	nsubj
7	gobbled	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 one	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 one	amod
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gobbled	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	7 gobbled	compound:prt
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	7 gobbled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gobble up	past	loads	every single one				quickly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 3

Nah, the wind blew them away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 blew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blew	nsubj
5	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blew	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 blew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow away	past	the wind	them = they				away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the rain washed away every single crumb they had dropped on the path

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 rain	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rain	det
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rain	acl
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 washed	advmod
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 crumb	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 crumb	amod
9	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 washed	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dropped	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dropped	aux
12	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 crumb	acl:relcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 path	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 path	det
15	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash away	participle	the rain not said here	every single crumb				away property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drop	past · perfect	they	every single crumb not said here		the path			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme on path=Destination

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