Test 8 · ★ · Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant: the Giant learns to love,…

when the kids came back, what came with them?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: come back, come

This is test 8 · ★ 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	when	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kids	det
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	advcl
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the kids						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past						with kids = kid	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

the Spring came back too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Spring	det
2	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	3 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the Spring						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

the Spring came back too with all the birds and blossom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Spring	det
2	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 birds	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 birds	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 birds	det
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 blossom	cc
11	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 birds	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the Spring					with all birds and blossom	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the Spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Spring	det
2	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the flowers came back too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flowers	det
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	3 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	the flowers						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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