Test 10 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

What's the little Squib's big plan with the stars?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big plan, little Squib · What happens: be, plan

This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Squib	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Squib	amod
5	Squib	Squib	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 plan	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Squib	case
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plan	amod
8	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 stars	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stars	det
11	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 plan	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the little Squib's big plan with the stars						tree rules
2	plan		the little Squib					with the stars	nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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

Tell them about the pretty bride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 bride	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bride	det
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bride	amod
6	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		them = they			about the pretty bride	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about bride=Topic

Option 2

Tell the crowd about the bride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crowd	det
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 bride	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bride	det
6	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crowd	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	the crowd				about the bride	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent crowd=Recipient about bride=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Tell them about the pretty bride, then go and find the King

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 bride	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bride	det
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bride	amod
6	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 go	advmod
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 find	cc
11	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		them = they		about the pretty bride	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about bride=Topic
2	go	infinitive	you not said here			then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	infinitive	you not said here	the King				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic

Option 4

Sing about the pretty bride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	5 bride	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bride	det
4	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bride	amod
5	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sing	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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