Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt…

Did Gretel actually trick the witch, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: trick, innit · To what, where: Gretel

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Gretel	aux
2	Gretel	Gretel	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 trick	obl
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 trick	advmod
4	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trick	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 trick	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 trick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	present		Gretel				actually property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Patient
2	innit	infinitive							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

She tricked her into the pit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tricked	nsubj
2	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tricked	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 pit	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pit	det
6	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tricked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	She	her = she				into the pit result	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Patient into pit=Result

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

She pushed her in the oven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pushed	nsubj
2	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pushed	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 oven	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 oven	det
6	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	She	her = she		the oven			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme in oven=Trajectory

Option 3

Yeah, she shoved the witch right in the oven and shut the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shoved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shoved	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shoved	nsubj
4	shoved	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 witch	det
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shoved	obj
7	right	right	ADV	_	4 shoved	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 oven	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 oven	det
10	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shoved	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shut	cc
12	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 shoved	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shove	past	she	the witch		the oven		right property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent witch=Theme in oven=Destination
2	shut	infinitive	she not said here	the door					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient

Option 4

Nah, she just sat back and let the witch burn herself out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 let	cc
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sat	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 witch	det
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obj
11	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 burn	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	11 burn	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sit back	past	she		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	let	infinitive	she not said here	the witch	tree rules
3	burn out	infinitive	the witch not said here	herself = she	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Theme

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