Inorder tree traversal: Which definition is correct?

Question

I have the following text from an academic course I took a while ago about inorder traversal (they also call it pancaking) of a binary tree (not BST):

Answer 1

For an inline tree traversal you have to keep in mind that the order of traversal is left-node-right. For the above diagram that you are conflicted on, your error occurs when you read a parent node before reading any leaf(children) nodes to the left.

The proper traversal would be: as far left as possible with leaf nodes(A), return to parent node(B), move to the right, but since D has a child to its left you move down again(C), back up to C's parent(D), to D's right child(E), reverse back to the root(F), move to the right leaf(G), move to G's leaf but since it has a left leaf node move there(H), return to parent(I).

the above traversal reads the node when I have it listed in parenthesis.