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title: that's mental, the birds just ate all the crumbs? — Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel… · tree and pragmatics
description: that's mental, the birds just ate all the crumbs? Test 5 · ★ 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; Mo
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# Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Hansel and Gretel, part 19: the child…

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that's mental, the birds just ate all the crumbs?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** that, birds · **What happens:** be, eat · **To what, where:** crumbs

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:t5:1
# text = that's mental, the birds just ate all the crumbs?
1	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | mental *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | past | the birds | all crumbs |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, loads of birds gobbled every single one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:t5:o1:1
# text = Yeah, loads of birds gobbled every single one
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	gobbled	gobble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gobble** | participle | loads of birds | every single one |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, loads of hungry birds gobbled every single one up quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:t5:o2:1
# text = Yeah, loads of hungry birds gobbled every single one up quickly
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	loads	load	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gobbled	gobble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
9	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gobble up** | past | loads | every single one |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, the wind blew them away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:t5:o3:1
# text = Nah, the wind blew them away
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, the rain washed away every single crumb they had dropped on the path

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:743-pg2591-part19:t5:o4:1
# text = Nah, the rain washed away every single crumb they had dropped on the path
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	crumb	crumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash away** | participle | the rain *not said here* | every single crumb |  |  |  | away *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drop** | past · perfect | they | every single crumb *not said here* |  | the path |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crumb=Theme on path=Destination |

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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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