Test 4 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

Wait, what was the Rocket on about, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, innit · To what, where: Rocket

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Rocket	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 Rocket	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Rocket	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Rocket	det
6	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 about	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	6 Rocket	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the Rocket	tree rules
3	innit	infinitive	you not said here		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 · ← Mova's choice

Himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The sun, obviously, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 obviously	punct
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	2 sun	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sun	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Stars, mostly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Stars	punct
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	1 Stars	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Himself, obviously, big time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Himself	punct
3	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	1 Himself	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Himself	conj

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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