Test 6 · ★ · The Orange Fairy Book, The Story of the Hero Makoma, part…

Why did the giant want to be a slave?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant · What happens: do, want, be · To what, where: slave

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 want	nsubj
5	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	9 slave	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 slave	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 slave	det
9	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 want	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	want	present	the giant		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	the giant not said here	a slave	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

Cause he wanted cattle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cattle	compound
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Cause	acl:relcl
4	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	Cause not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cause=Theme

Option 2

Cause he was scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 scared	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules

Option 3

Cause Makoma was way richer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 way	case
2	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 way	compound
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 way	cop
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 way	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						cause Makoma way	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cause Makoma was way stronger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 way	case
2	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 way	compound
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 way	cop
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 way	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						cause Makoma way	tree rules

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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