Test 2 · ★ · Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant: the Giant learns to love,…

bruv, why did the Giant put up a massive wall?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: put up · To what, where: massive wall

This is test 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. 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 put	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 put	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Giant	det
6	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 put	advcl
7	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 put	compound:prt
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wall	det
10	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wall	amod
11	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put up	past · do-support		a massive wall				bruv vocative	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wall=Goal

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

cos he wanted the garden for himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
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	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	cos	the garden				for cos	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot garden=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cos he wanted the garden all to himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
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	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 garden	det
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 himself	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	cos	the garden	cos				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent garden=Theme to himself=Attribute

Option 3

cos he was grumpy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grumpy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grumpy	cop
4	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cos not said here				grumpy property	tree rules

Option 4

cos he liked being on his own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 liked	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 liked	nsubj
3	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 on	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 own	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 own	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 liked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	cos			cos's own			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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