--- title: In what manner did the birds frustrate Hansel's second attempt at na… — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel… · tree and pragmatics description: In what manner did the birds frustrate Hansel's second attempt at navigation? Exam question 4 of lesson 743 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, part 19: the children are led into the forest and get lost» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/743-pg2591-part19/e4/) [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/743-pg2591-part19/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, part 19: the child… In what manner did the birds frustrate Hansel's second attempt at navigation? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** birds, Hansel · **What happens:** do, frustrate, attempt · **To what, where:** manner, second attempt, navigation This is exam question 4 of lesson 743 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, part 19: the children are led into the forest and get lost» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/743-pg2591-part19/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:e4:1 # text = In what manner did the birds frustrate Hansel's second attempt at navigation? 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 3 det _ _ 3 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 frustrate frustrate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 Hansel Hansel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 11 amod _ _ 11 attempt attempt NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 navigation navigation NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | what manner | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **frustrate** | present | the birds | Hansel's second attempt | | navigation | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus attempt=Experiencer | | 3 | **attempt** | | Hansel | | | navigation | | | nom attempt «act transitive»: poss=agent at=place | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} By eating up every single crumb that Hansel had carefully dropped ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:e4:o1:1 # text = By eating up every single crumb that Hansel had carefully dropped 1 By by SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 5 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 crumb crumb NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 Hansel Hansel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat up** | gerund | | every single crumb | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Patient | | 2 | **drop** | past · perfect · passive | | every single crumb | | | | carefully *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} By stealing the bread crumbs ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:e4:o2:1 # text = By stealing the bread crumbs 1 By by SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 stealing steal VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 crumbs crumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **steal** | gerund | | the bread crumbs | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crumb=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} By greedily consuming all of the scattered breadcrumbs along the path ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:e4:o3:1 # text = By greedily consuming all of the scattered breadcrumbs along the path 1 By by SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 greedily greedily ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 consuming consume VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 scattered scatter ADJ VBN _ 8 amod _ _ 8 breadcrumbs breadcrumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 along along ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **consume** | gerund | | all | | | | along the path | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Asset | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} By consuming the scattered breadcrumbs ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:e4:o4:1 # text = By consuming the scattered breadcrumbs 1 By by SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 consuming consume VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 scattered scatter ADJ VBN _ 5 amod _ _ 5 breadcrumbs breadcrumb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **consume** | gerund | | the scattered breadcrumbs | | | | | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breadcrumb=Asset | **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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