Test 4 · ★ · Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant: the Giant learns to love,…

lowkey, what was the linnet doing outside the window?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey, linnet · What happens: be, do · To what, where: linnet

This is test 4 · ★ 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 linnet	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 linnet	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 linnet	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 linnet	det
6	linnet	linnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lowkey	appos
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 linnet	acl
8	outside	outside	ADP	_	10 window	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 window	det
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	lowkey	the linnet					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the linnet not said here					outside the window	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

singing like mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	3 mad	case
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund						like mad	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

singing for the boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 boy	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund						for the boy	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for boy=Recipient

Option 3

singing its heart out in the old apple tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 heart	nmod:poss
3	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 singing	obj
4	out	out	ADV	_	1 singing	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 tree	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tree	amod
8	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	compound
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing out speech: express	gerund		its heart		the old apple tree		out property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heart=Theme

Option 4

perched on the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 wall	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wall	det
4	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 perched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perch	participle				the wall			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location

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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