Exam question 1 · Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant: the Giant learns to love,…

Which corner of the garden did the Giant first perceive the child in distress, and under which kind of tree?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: corner · What happens: perceive · To what, where: child, distress

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2035 «Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant: the Giant learns to love, frees the children, and dies under the blossoming tree» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 corner	det
2	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 perceive	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 garden	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 corner	nmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 perceive	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Giant	det
8	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 did	obj
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 perceive	advmod
10	perceive	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 child	det
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 perceive	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 distress	case
14	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 perceive	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 kind	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 kind	cc
17	under	under	ADP	_	19 kind	case
18	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	19 kind	det
19	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 perceive	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 tree	case
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 kind	nmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 perceive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	past · do-support	which corner of the garden	the child		distress		first property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus

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

the shady side, under a silver birch covered in snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 side	det
2	shady	shady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 side	amod
3	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 birch	punct
5	under	under	ADP	_	8 birch	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 birch	det
7	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 birch	amod
8	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 side	appos
9	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 birch	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 snow	case
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle		a silver birch not said here				in snow	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in snow=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the farthest corner, beneath a frost-covered tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 corner	det
2	farthest	far	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 corner	amod
3	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tree	punct
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	10 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
7	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 covered	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 frost	punct
9	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 tree	amod
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 corner	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle							vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the back corner, beside a bare and frozen oak tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 corner	det
2	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 corner	compound
3	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tree	punct
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	11 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tree	det
7	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tree	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 frozen	cc
9	frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bare	conj
10	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	compound
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 corner	conj

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

Option 4

the farthest corner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 corner	det
2	farthest	far	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 corner	amod
3	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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