Test 11 · ★ · Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant: the Giant learns to love,…
so did the Giant die or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Giant die
This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 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 | 5 die | det |
| 4 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 die | amod |
| 5 | die | die | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 nah | cc |
| 7 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 die | discourse |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Giant die | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent die=Eventuality |
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
yeah, he died peacefully under the tree after the children had gone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 died | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 died | nsubj |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | peacefully | peacefully | ADV | _ | 4 died | advmod |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 died | obl |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 gone | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 children | det |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gone | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gone | aux |
| 13 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 died | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | he | the tree | peacefully property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | the children | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
yeah, he died
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 died | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 died | nsubj |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | he | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he died under the tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 died | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 died | nsubj |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 died | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | he | the tree | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 4
yeah, he fell asleep in the snow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 fell | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fell | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 snow | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 snow | det |
| 8 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | he | the snow | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in snow=Location |
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