Test 4 · ★ · The Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Hero Makoma, part…

What did that giant even do for a living?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: do

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1135 «The Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Hero Makoma, part 1: a strong boy beats crocodiles and a giant» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 giant	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 giant	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 giant	nsubj
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 giant	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 living	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 living	det
9	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 giant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present						for a living	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1

He made mountains by piling up rocks all day, like a total boss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 piling	mark
5	piling	pile	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 made	advcl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 piling	compound:prt
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 piling	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 piling	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 boss	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 boss	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 boss	det
13	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 boss	amod
14	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	He	mountains					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Product
2	pile up	gerund	He not said here	rocks			day		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme rock=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He made mountains, like a boss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 boss	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 boss	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boss	det
7	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	He	mountains					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Product

Option 3

He hunted deer, pretty much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hunted	nsubj
2	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunted	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pretty	punct
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 hunted	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	2 hunted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past	He	deer				pretty property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme

Option 4

He was a huge giant who just sat around and stacked up hills for fun

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 giant	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 giant	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 giant	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 giant	amod
5	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sat	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 sat	advmod
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 giant	acl:relcl
9	around	around	ADV	_	8 sat	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stacked	cc
11	stacked	stack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 hills	amod
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 stacked	compound:prt
13	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sat	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 fun	case
15	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a huge giant		tree rules
2	sit around	past	a huge giant	stacked hills	for fun; around property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hill=Theme
3	stack up	participle				vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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