Test 6 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

Did the Rocket's mum spin round loads?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum · What happens: do, spin · To what, where: round loads

This is test 6 · ★ 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rocket	det
3	Rocket	Rocket	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mum	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Rocket	case
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spin	nsubj
6	spin	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Did	parataxis
7	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 loads	amod
8	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spin	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spin	present	the Rocket's mum	round loads					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent load=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nineteen times, dead impressive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dead	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 times	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 impressive	amod
5	impressive	impressive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Nineteen times, dead impressive, and his mum did it all in one go

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 impressive	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 times	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 impressive	amod
5	impressive	impressive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 did	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mum	nmod:poss
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 impressive	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 did	obj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 it	det
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 go	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 go	nummod
15	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	his mum	it		one go			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

Nine times, dead impressive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dead	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 times	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 impressive	amod
5	impressive	impressive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Twenty times, dead proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dead	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 times	punct
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 dead	advmod

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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