Test 5 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

Why was the Catherine Wheel going on about romance being dead?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Catherine Wheel, going · What happens: go on, be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 going	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Wheel	det
4	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Wheel	compound
5	Wheel	Wheel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 going	nsubj
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 dead	csubj
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 going	compound:prt
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 romance	case
9	romance	romance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 dead	cop
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past · progressive	the Catherine Wheel					about romance	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about romance=Location
2	is	gerund	going					dead property	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

Cos love's gone, innit mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	Cos	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 love	compound
2	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
6	innit	innit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mate	amod
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cos love					innit mate vocative; gone property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cos she's proper miserable, like, because the Rocket keeps going on at her

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 miserable	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 miserable	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 miserable	cop
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 miserable	amod
5	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	5 miserable	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 keeps	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 keeps	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Rocket	det
11	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 keeps	nsubj
12	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 miserable	conj
13	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 keeps	xcomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	13 going	compound:prt
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 her	case
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	she	miserable property	tree rules
2	keep	present	the Rocket		tree rules
3	go on	gerund	the Rocket not said here	at her = she	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at she=Location

Option 3

Cos she's proper bored, like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 bored	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bored	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bored	cop
4	proper	properly	ADV	_	5 bored	advmod
5	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bored	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	5 bored	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					bored, properly property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cos she's proper miserable, like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 miserable	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 miserable	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 miserable	cop
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 miserable	amod
5	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 miserable	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	5 miserable	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					miserable property	tree rules

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