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title: ok but why couldn't Hansel see the crumbs at night? — Grimm, Hansel and Grethel, part 4: los… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok but why couldn't Hansel see the crumbs at night? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 101 «Grimm, Hansel and Grethel, part 4: lost again, then trapped by a witch in a sugar cottage» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 7 · ★ · Grimm, Hansel and Grethel, part 4: lost again, then trappe…

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ok but why couldn't Hansel see the crumbs at night?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** not hansel, see · **To what, where:** crumbs

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 101 «Grimm, Hansel and Grethel, part 4: lost again, then trapped by a witch in a sugar cottage» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/101-pg11027-part4/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:101-pg11027-part4:t7:1
# text = ok but why couldn't Hansel see the crumbs at night?
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
2	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	Hansel	hansel	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hansel** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive |  | the crumbs |  |  | night |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crumb=Stimulus |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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rain washed them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:101-pg11027-part4:t7:o1:1
# text = rain washed them
1	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | past | rain | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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they were too small

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:101-pg11027-part4:t7:o2:1
# text = they were too small
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | they |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the birds ate them all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:101-pg11027-part4:t7:o3:1
# text = the birds ate them all
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | the birds | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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wind blew them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:101-pg11027-part4:t7:o4:1
# text = wind blew them
1	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | wind | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

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**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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