Test 6 · ★ · Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant: the Giant learns to love,…

what did the Giant do when he saw the boy crying?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Giant, he, boy · What happens: do, see, cry · To what, where: boy

This is test 6 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Giant	det
4	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boy	det
10	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
11	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 boy	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the Giant		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	he	the boy	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
4	cry speech: express	gerund	the boy not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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

he felt sad and sat still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sat	cc
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	he					sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	sit	past	he not said here				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he shouted at him again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shouted	nsubj
2	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shouted	obl
5	again	again	ADV	_	2 shouted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	he				again	at him = he	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he felt sorry and went down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 went	cc
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	he					sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	go down	past	he not said here					down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

he went down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	he					down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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