--- title: bruv, why did the Giant put up a massive wall? — Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant: the G… · tree and pragmatics description: bruv, why did the Giant put up a massive wall? Test 2 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2035-pg902-part5/t2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant: the G…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2035-pg902-part5/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant: the Giant learns to love,… bruv, why did the Giant put up a massive wall? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** put up · **To what, where:** massive wall This is test 2 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/2035-pg902-part5/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2035-pg902-part5:t2:1 # text = bruv, why did the Giant put up a massive wall? 1 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 advcl _ _ 7 put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 massive massive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put up** | past · do-support | | a massive wall | | | | bruv *vocative* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wall=Goal | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} cos he wanted the garden for himself ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2035-pg902-part5:t2:o1:1 # text = cos he wanted the garden for himself 1 cos cos NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | past | cos | the garden | | | | for cos | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot garden=Theme | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} cos he wanted the garden all to himself ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2035-pg902-part5:t2:o2:1 # text = cos he wanted the garden all to himself 1 cos cos NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 all all ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | past | cos | the garden | cos | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent garden=Theme to himself=Attribute | ### Option 3 {#o3} cos he was grumpy ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2035-pg902-part5:t2:o3:1 # text = cos he was grumpy 1 cos cos NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 grumpy grumpy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | he | cos *not said here* | | | | grumpy *property* | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} cos he liked being on his own ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2035-pg902-part5:t2:o4:1 # text = cos he liked being on his own 1 cos cos NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 liked like VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 cop _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **like** | past | cos | | | cos's own | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | **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. 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