--- title: dead serious, how did Gretel finish the witch off? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel… · tree and pragmatics description: dead serious, how did Gretel finish the witch off? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1473 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the bread house and the oven» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1473-pg503-part60/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1473-pg503-part60/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the bread house an… dead serious, how did Gretel finish the witch off? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Gretel · **What happens:** finish off · **To what, where:** witch This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1473 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel: the bread house and the oven» 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/1473-pg503-part60/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1473-pg503-part60:t7:1 # text = dead serious, how did Gretel finish the witch off? 1 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 Gretel Gretel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 off off ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **finish off** | past · do-support | Gretel | the witch | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector witch=Eventuality | 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} locked her in the cellar ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1473-pg503-part60:t7:o1:1 # text = locked her in the cellar 1 locked lock VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 cellar cellar NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lock** | past | | her *= she* | | the cellar | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} tossed her in the pot ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1473-pg503-part60:t7:o2:1 # text = tossed her in the pot 1 tossed toss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **toss** | past | | her *= she* | | the pot | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme in pot=Destination | ### Option 3 {#o3} burned her ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1473-pg503-part60:t7:o3:1 # text = burned her 1 burned burn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **burn** | past | | her *= she* | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} shoved her in the oven ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1473-pg503-part60:t7:o4:1 # text = shoved her in the oven 1 shoved shove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 oven oven NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shove** | past | | her *= she* | | the oven | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme in oven=Destination | **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. 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