Exam question 3 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…
In what manner did the Rocket's father descend to earth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: father · What happens: do, descend · To what, where: manner, earth
This is exam question 3 of lesson 2039 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 9: the fireworks start to chatter and the Rocket brags about himself» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 manner | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 manner | det |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Rocket | det |
| 6 | Rocket | Rocket | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Rocket | case |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 descend | nsubj |
| 9 | descend | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 earth | case |
| 11 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 descend | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | what manner | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | descend | present | the Rocket's father | earth | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to earth=Location |
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
On a cloud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 cloud | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cloud | det |
| 3 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
On a ribbon of pink light
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 ribbon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ribbon | det |
| 3 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 light | case |
| 5 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 light | amod |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ribbon | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
By rocket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 rocket | case |
| 2 | rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
In a shower of golden rain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 shower | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shower | det |
| 3 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 rain | case |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rain | amod |
| 6 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shower | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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