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

Mate, were Hansel and Gretel properly knackered before they found that bird?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate Hansel, Hansel · What happens: be, knacker, find · To what, where: Mate Hansel, bird

This is test 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. 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Hansel	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Hansel	cop
4	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 knackered	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Gretel	cc
6	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Hansel	conj
7	properly	properly	ADV	_	8 knackered	advmod
8	knackered	knacker	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 found	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 knackered	advcl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 bird	mark
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 knackered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Mate Hansel and Gretel		tree rules
2	knacker	past	Mate Hansel and Gretel		properly property	tree rules
3	find	past	Hansel	bird		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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

Nah, they were fine mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 mate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mate	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mate	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mate	amod
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Yeah, knackered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 knackered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knacker	participle							tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, they was dead beat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they were dead tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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