Test 11 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…
Did the Cracker laugh at the Rocket?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cracker · What happens: laugh · To what, where: Rocket
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Cracker | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Cracker | det |
| 3 | Cracker | Cracker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 laugh | nsubj |
| 4 | laugh | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Rocket | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Rocket | det |
| 7 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laugh | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 laugh | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | the Cracker | the Rocket | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Yeah, cos he was happy, and then the Rocket laughed back at him
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 happy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | punct |
| 3 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 6 happy | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | cop |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laughed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 laughed | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 laughed | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Rocket | det |
| 11 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laughed | nsubj |
| 12 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 laughed | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 laughed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh back | past | the Rocket | then | at him = he | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Yeah, cos he was happy and the Rocket was being so ridiculously annoying all night
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 happy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | punct |
| 3 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 6 happy | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | cop |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 annoying | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Rocket | det |
| 9 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 annoying | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 annoying | cop |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 annoying | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 annoying | advmod |
| 13 | ridiculously | ridiculously | ADV | _ | 14 annoying | advmod |
| 14 | annoying | annoying | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 happy | conj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happy | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | night | happy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the Rocket | annoying, ridiculously property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, cos he was happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 happy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | punct |
| 3 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 6 happy | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | cop |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | happy property | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, cos he was chuffed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 chuffed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 chuffed | punct |
| 3 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 6 chuffed | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 chuffed | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 chuffed | aux:pass |
| 6 | chuffed | chuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chuff | past · passive | he | tree rules |
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