Test 7 · ★ · Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant: the Giant learns to love,…

so the Giant knocked the wall down, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Giant · What happens: knock down · To what, where: wall

This is test 7 · ★ 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	_	4 knocked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Giant	det
3	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knocked	nsubj
4	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knocked	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	4 knocked	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knocked	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 knocked	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 knocked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock down	past	the Giant	the wall					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent wall=Patient

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

yeah, with a hammer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hammer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hammer	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 hammer	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hammer	det
5	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, with a big axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 axe	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 axe	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 axe	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 axe	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 axe	amod
6	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

nah, with a big stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 stick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stick	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 stick	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stick	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stick	amod
6	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he used a big axe to smash the whole wall down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 used	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 used	nsubj
4	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 axe	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 axe	amod
7	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 smash	mark
9	smash	smash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wall	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wall	amod
12	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 smash	obj
13	down	down	ADV	_	9 smash	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	he	a big axe					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Patient
2	smash	to-infinitive	he not said here	the whole wall				down property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Theme

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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