Test 12 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

What's the Rocket's big thing, mate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big thing · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ 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	4 Rocket	det
4	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Rocket	case
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	vocative
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Rocket's big thing						tree rules

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

Being super sensitive, like, dead deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sensitive	cop
2	super	super	ADV	_	3 sensitive	advmod
3	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
5	like	like	INTJ	_	3 sensitive	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 deep	punct
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deep	amod
8	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sensitive	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						sensitive, super property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Being super sensitive, like, dead deep, and he never shuts up about it

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sensitive	cop
2	super	super	ADV	_	3 sensitive	advmod
3	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
5	like	like	INTJ	_	3 sensitive	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 deep	punct
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deep	amod
8	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sensitive	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shuts	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 shuts	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shuts	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 shuts	advmod
13	shuts	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sensitive	parataxis
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 shuts	compound:prt
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shuts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	gerund		sensitive, super property	tree rules
2	be				tree rules
3	not shut up	present	he	about it	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Being super clever, like, dead proud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 clever	cop
2	super	super	ADV	_	3 clever	advmod
3	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
5	like	like	INTJ	_	3 clever	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clever	conj
8	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clever	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	clever, super property	tree rules
2	be			tree rules
3	be			tree rules

Option 4

Being super sensitive, like, dead deep, and all about his own amazing self

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sensitive	cop
2	super	super	ADV	_	3 sensitive	advmod
3	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
5	like	like	INTJ	_	3 sensitive	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 deep	punct
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deep	amod
8	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sensitive	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 all	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 all	cc
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 sensitive	conj
12	about	about	ADP	_	16 self	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 self	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 self	amod
15	amazing	amazing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 self	amod
16	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						sensitive, super property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

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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