Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt…

Like, why'd the witch build a house made of bread, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: witch · What happens: build, make · To what, where: house

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	7 build	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 build	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 build	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 build	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 build	nsubj
7	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 build	obj
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 house	acl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 bread	case
12	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 though	punct
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 build	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 build	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	infinitive	the witch	a house					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product
2	make	participle		a house not said here				of bread	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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 lure in children so she could fatten them up for supper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 lure	mark
2	lure	lure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 fatten	advcl
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 children	case
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lure	obl
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 fatten	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fatten	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fatten	aux
8	fatten	fatten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fatten	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 fatten	compound:prt
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 supper	case
12	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fatten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lure	to-infinitive	she not said here					in children	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	fatten up	could	she	children = child				for supper	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To lure children inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 lure	mark
2	lure	lure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lure	obj
4	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 lure	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lure	to-infinitive		children				inside property	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient

Option 3

To get the kids inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 get	mark
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kids	det
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	obj
5	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	to-infinitive		the kids				inside property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus

Option 4

Cos she wanted to bake the whole village into cakes and bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 wanted	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bake	mark
5	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 village	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 village	amod
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bake	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 cakes	case
10	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bake	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bread	cc
12	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cakes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	bake not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	the whole village		cakes and bread			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent village=Material into cake=Product

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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