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title: dude, why did Hansel keep stopping to look back? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel… · tree and pragmatics
description: dude, why did Hansel keep stopping to look back? Test 1 · ★ 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 the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, part 19: the child…

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dude, why did Hansel keep stopping to look back?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Hansel · **What happens:** keep, stop, look back

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This is test 1 · ★ 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. 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/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:t1:1
# text = dude, why did Hansel keep stopping to look back?
1	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Hansel	Hansel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past · do-support | Hansel |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stop** | gerund | Hansel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **look back** | to-infinitive | Hansel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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He was dropping crumbs to mark the trail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:t1:o1:1
# text = He was dropping crumbs to mark the trail
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	mark	mark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	trail	trail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | past · progressive | He | crumbs |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme |
| 2 | **mark** | to-infinitive | He *not said here* | the trail |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent trail=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He was checking if the dog followed them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:t1:o2:1
# text = He was checking if the dog followed them
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	checking	check	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | past · progressive | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **follow** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the dog | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He was dropping pebbles so they could find home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:t1:o3:1
# text = He was dropping pebbles so they could find home
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | past · progressive | He | pebbles |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | could | pebbles *= pebble* | home |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He was looking for the father who had gone away to chop wood in the forest

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:t1:o4:1
# text = He was looking for the father who had gone away to chop wood in the forest
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	chop	chop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
13	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · progressive | He |  |  |  |  | for the father; away *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for father=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past · perfect | the father |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **chop** | to-infinitive | He *not said here* | wood |  | the forest |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wood=Patient in forest=Location |

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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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