Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt…

Was Hansel gonna get fattened up, like, proper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, fatten up · To what, where: Hansel

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Hansel	cop
2	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fattened	nsubj:pass
3	gonna	gonna	PART	_	5 fattened	mark
4	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 fattened	aux:pass
5	fattened	fatten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 fattened	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 proper	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 proper	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fattened	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fattened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Hansel					tree rules
2	fatten up	infinitive · passive		Hansel					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she wanted him as a pet to keep in the stable for ages

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 pet	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pet	det
8	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 stable	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stable	det
13	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 ages	case
15	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	she	him = he				as a pet	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as pet=Attribute
2	keep	to-infinitive	she not said here			the stable	for ages		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in stable=Location

Option 2

Yeah, to be cooked later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 cooked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cooked	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	5 cooked	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 cooked	aux:pass
5	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 cooked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	to-infinitive · passive						late property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»

Option 3

Nah, she was just feeding him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 feeding	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 feeding	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 feeding	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 feeding	advmod
6	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 feeding	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past · progressive	she		him = he				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, to be eaten later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 eaten	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eaten	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	5 eaten	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 eaten	aux:pass
5	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 eaten	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive · passive						late property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»

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