Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the witch is burnt…

Bruv, how'd the kids get across that water in the end?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: kids · What happens: get · To what, where: water

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 get	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kids	det
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Bruv	conj
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	the kids			that water	in the end		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme across water=Destination

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

Some big white duck carried them over on its back, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 duck	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 white	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 duck	amod
4	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	nsubj
5	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carried	obj
7	over	over	ADP	_	5 carried	compound:prt
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 back	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 back	nmod:poss
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bruv	punct
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 back	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry over	past	some white duck	them = they		duck's back and bruv			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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

A white duck carried them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 duck	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 duck	amod
3	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carried	nsubj
4	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	a white duck	them = they					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

A goose flew them across

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 goose	det
2	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	obj
5	across	across	ADV	_	3 flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	a goose	them = they				across property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

Option 4

A swan ferried them over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 swan	det
2	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ferried	nsubj
3	ferried	ferry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ferried	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	3 ferried	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ferry over	past	a swan	them = they					vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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