Test 9 · ★ · Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant: the Giant learns to love,…

wait, what marks did the boy have when the Giant saw him again?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, marks, Giant · What happens: wait, have, see · To what, where: boy

This is test 9 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 have	obj
4	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 marks	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 saw	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Giant	det
11	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 have	ccomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	obj
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 saw	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	marks			tree rules
3	see	past	the Giant	boy	again	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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

bruises on his right hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bruises	bruise	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 hand	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hand	amod
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bruises	nmod

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

Option 2

nail-prints on both his hands and feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prints	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 nail	punct
3	prints	print	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 hands	case
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hands	det:predet
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prints	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 feet	cc
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hands	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nail-prints on his hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prints	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 nail	punct
3	prints	print	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 prints	nmod

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

Option 4

cuts across both his palms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuts	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	across	across	ADP	_	5 palms	case
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 palms	det:predet
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 palms	nmod:poss
5	palms	palm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 cuts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	present				his palms			vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across palm=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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