Exam question 1 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt…

For what purpose did the old woman confine Hansel within the stable?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: purpose · What happens: do · To what, where: old woman confine

This is exam question 1 of lesson 744 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt and the children go home rich» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 confine	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 confine	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 confine	compound
8	confine	confine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 confine	appos
10	within	within	ADP	_	12 stable	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stable	det
12	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	purpose	the old woman confine				within the stable	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 · ← Mova's choice

To make him grow plump

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		him = he					tree rules
2	grow	infinitive	him = he not said here					plump property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

For the purpose of fattening him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 purpose	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 purpose	det
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 fattening	mark
5	fattening	fatten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 purpose	acl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fattening	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fatten	gerund	the purpose not said here	him = he					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

For the purpose of fattening him up before she ate him later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 purpose	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 purpose	det
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ate	obl
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 fattening	mark
5	fattening	fatten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 ate	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fattening	obj
7	up	up	ADP	_	5 fattening	compound:prt
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 ate	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ate	nsubj
10	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ate	obj
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 ate	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fatten up	gerund	she not said here	him = he					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	eat	past	she	him = he				for the purpose; late property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

In order to make him larger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 make	mark
2	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 In	fixed
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		him = he				large property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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