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title: wait, what were they eating at the very end? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, what were they eating at the very end? Test 12 · ★ 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; Mova's
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# Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, part 19: the child…

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wait, what were they eating at the very end?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, they · **What happens:** wait, eat · **To what, where:** end

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:t12:1
# text = wait, what were they eating at the very end?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | past · progressive | they |  |  |  | at the end |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

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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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Two or three nuts from the trees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:t12:o1:1
# text = Two or three nuts from the trees
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A few mushrooms from the forest floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:t12:o2:1
# text = A few mushrooms from the forest floor
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Two or three wild berries they picked from the forest floor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:t12:o3:1
# text = Two or three wild berries they picked from the forest floor
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick** | past | Two wild berries |  |  |  |  | from the forest floor | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent from floor=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Two or three berries from the ground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:t12:o4:1
# text = Two or three berries from the ground
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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