Test 7 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…
Was the Rocket a bit of a show-off?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Rocket
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Rocket | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rocket | det |
| 3 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Rocket | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 off | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 off | det |
| 8 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 off | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 off | punct |
| 10 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bit | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rocket | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Rocket | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Massive show-off, no cap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 off | amod |
| 2 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 off | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 off | punct |
| 4 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cap | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 cap | det |
| 7 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 off | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Massive show-off, no cap, and he wouldn't stop talking about his dad
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 off | amod |
| 2 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 off | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 off | punct |
| 4 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cap | punct |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 cap | det |
| 7 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 off | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 stop | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stop | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stop | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 stop | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 stop | advmod |
| 13 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 off | conj |
| 14 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 stop | xcomp |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 dad | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 dad | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 talking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stop | would | he | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | talk | gerund | he not said here | about his dad | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about dad=Topic |
Option 3
Total show-off, honest bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 off | amod |
| 2 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 off | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 off | punct |
| 4 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bruv | punct |
| 6 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bruv | amod |
| 7 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 off | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Proper show-off, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 off | amod |
| 2 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 off | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 off | punct |
| 4 | off | off | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 innit | punct |
| 6 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 off | 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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