Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, part 19: the child…

did they find their way home the first time or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: find · To what, where: way

This is test 9 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 find	nsubj
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 way	nmod:poss
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj
6	home	home	ADV	_	3 find	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obl:unmarked
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 time	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	they	their way			time	home property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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

Nah, they wandered in the forest until the birds ate every crumb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wandered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wandered	nsubj
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wandered	obl
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 ate	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 birds	det
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ate	nsubj
11	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wandered	advcl
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 crumb	det
13	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	they			the forest			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Trajectory
2	eat	past	the birds	every crumb					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, the moon guided them home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 guided	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 guided	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moon	det
4	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 guided	nsubj
5	guided	guide	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 guided	obj
7	home	home	ADV	_	5 guided	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guide	past	the moon	them = they				home property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, the shining pebbles brought them safely back home to their father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 brought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 brought	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pebbles	det
4	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 pebbles	amod
5	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 brought	nsubj
6	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 brought	obj
8	safely	safely	ADV	_	9 back	advmod
9	back	back	ADV	_	6 brought	advmod
10	home	home	ADV	_	6 brought	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 father	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 brought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring	past	the shining pebbles	them = they	pebbles's father			home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to father=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the pebbles brought them back home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 brought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 brought	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pebbles	det
4	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 brought	nsubj
5	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brought	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 brought	advmod
8	home	home	ADV	_	5 brought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	past	the pebbles	them = they				home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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