Test 4 · ★ · Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the witch chases the lo…

Did the duck fall for the breadcrumbs, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: duck · What happens: fall

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 754 «Grimm, Little Snow-White, part 30: the witch chases the lovers, Roland forgets, and Snowdrop is sent into the wood» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duck	det
3	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	nsubj
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 breadcrumbs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 breadcrumbs	det
7	breadcrumbs	breadcrumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nah	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 fall	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · do-support	the duck					for the breadcrumbs	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for breadcrumb=Theme

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

Yeah, the duck ate them all up and then swam straight to the witch.

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 duck	det
4	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	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 ate	obj
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 up	advmod
8	up	up	ADV	_	5 ate	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 swam	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 swam	advmod
11	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ate	conj
12	straight	straight	ADV	_	15 witch	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 witch	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 witch	det
15	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swam	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the duck	them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	swim	past	the duck not said here	the witch			then		vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location witch=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, it ate them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	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 ate	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	it	them = they					tree rules

Option 3

Nah, the duck just swam away and wouldn't come near the bank at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 swam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 duck	det
4	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swam	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 swam	advmod
6	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 swam	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 come	cc
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 come	advmod
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 swam	conj
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 bank	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bank	det
14	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim away	past	the duck					away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not come	would	the duck not said here			the bank		at all	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near bank=Location

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

Nah, the duck wouldn't come

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 duck	det
4	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 come	advmod
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	would	the duck						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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