Exam question 2 · Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant: the Giant learns to love,…

What did the Giant's action towards the child signify with respect to his own transformation?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child · What happens: signify, transform

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 signify	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 signify	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 action	det
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 action	amod
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Giant	case
6	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
7	towards	towards	ADP	_	9 child	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 child	det
9	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 signify	obl
10	signify	signify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 respect	case
12	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 signify	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 transformation	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 transformation	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 transformation	amod
16	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 signify	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 signify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	signify	past · do-support						towards the child; with respect; to child's own transformation	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot what=Theme to transformation=Attribute
2	transform		child						nom transformation «event transitive»: poss=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

It signified his repentance, his gentleness towards children, and his wish to share his garden with them

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 signified	nsubj
2	signified	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 repentance	nmod:poss
4	repentance	repentance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 signified	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gentleness	punct
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 gentleness	nmod:poss
7	gentleness	gentleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 repentance	conj
8	towards	towards	ADP	_	9 children	case
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 gentleness	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 share	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 share	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wish	nmod:poss
13	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 share	nsubj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 share	mark
15	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 signified	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 garden	nmod:poss
17	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 share	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 share	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	signify	past	It	his repentance and his gentleness towards children		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot repentance=Theme
2	share	to-infinitive	his wish	wish's garden	with children = child	tree rules
3	repent		his = he			nom repentance «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
4	wish		his = he			nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It signified his repentance and his acceptance of love

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 signified	nsubj
2	signified	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 repentance	nmod:poss
4	repentance	repentance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 signified	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 acceptance	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 acceptance	nmod:poss
7	acceptance	acceptance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 repentance	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 love	case
9	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 acceptance	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	signify	past	It	his repentance and his acceptance of love	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot repentance=Theme
2	repent		his = he		nom repentance «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
3	accept		his = he	love	nom acceptance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

Option 3

It showed his anger at the children and his pride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 showed	nsubj
2	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 anger	nmod:poss
4	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showed	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 children	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 showed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pride	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pride	nmod:poss
10	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 showed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	past	It	his anger	at the children	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anger=Recipient
2	anger		his = he			nom anger «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
3	pride		his = he			nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

It signified that he had at last repented and fully accepted the love of the children around him

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 signified	nsubj
2	signified	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 signified	ccomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 last	case
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 had	obl
8	repented	repent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 had	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 accepted	cc
10	fully	fully	ADV	_	11 accepted	advmod
11	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 signified	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 love	det
13	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 accepted	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 children	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 children	det
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 love	nmod
17	around	around	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 accepted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	signify	past	It				tree rules
2	have	past	he		last		tree rules
3	repent	participle	he not said here				tree rules
4	accept	past		the love of the children		around him = he; fully property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme
5	love			the children			nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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