Test 5 · ★ · Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant: the Giant learns to love,…

was the boy in the tree actually small or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: boy

This is test 5 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 boy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 small	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 small	obl
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 small	advmod
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 small	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 small	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the boy					tree rules

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 was too tiny to reach the branches on his own at all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 tiny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tiny	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tiny	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tiny	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 tiny	advmod
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 reach	mark
8	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tiny	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 branches	det
10	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 reach	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 own	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 own	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 reach	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 reach	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					tiny property	tree rules
2	reach	to-infinitive	he not said here	the branches		his own		at all	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent branch=Theme at all=Asset

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, too tiny to reach the branches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tiny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tiny	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tiny	advmod
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 reach	mark
6	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tiny	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 branches	det
8	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	to-infinitive		the branches					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent branch=Theme

Option 3

yeah, he was just too short for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 short	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 short	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 short	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 short	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 short	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 short	advmod
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 short	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					for it; short property	tree rules

Option 4

yeah, the boy was tiny and the tree was far too high above him

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 tiny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tiny	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tiny	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tiny	cop
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 high	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 high	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 high	cop
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 high	advmod
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 high	advmod
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tiny	conj
14	above	above	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 high	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the boy					tiny property	tree rules
2	is	past	the tree					above boy; far, high property	tree rules

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