Test 2 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

Bruv, how bad was the King's flute playing, honestly?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv, flute · What happens: be, play · To what, where: flute

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 flute	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bad	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 bad	advmod
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Bruv	amod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 flute	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 flute	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 King	case
9	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 flute	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 honestly	punct
12	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	10 playing	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 flute	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bruv	the King's flute					tree rules
2	play	gerund	the King's flute not said here					honestly property	vn performance-26.7-1 «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

Rubbish, but nobody moaned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 moaned	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 moaned	cc
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 moaned	nsubj
5	moaned	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Rubbish	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moan	past	nobody	Rubbish not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rubbish=Theme

Option 2

Dead average, nobody said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 average	amod
2	average	average	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 average	punct
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Dead average						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Proper rank, but nobody said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rank	amod
2	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rank	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	nobody	Proper rank not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rank=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Pretty good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 good	advmod
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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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