Test 8 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…
Did anyone tell the Rocket to shut up?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: anyone, Rocket · What happens: tell, shut up · To what, where: Rocket · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 2 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Rocket | det |
| 5 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 shut | mark |
| 7 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tell | xcomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 shut | compound:prt |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · do-support | anyone | the Rocket | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent rocket=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | shut up not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Rocket not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, Bengal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 Bengal | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bengal | punct |
| 3 | Bengal | Bengal | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Squib did, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Squib | det |
| 2 | Squib | Squib | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bruv | punct |
| 5 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Squib | bruv | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bruv=Eventuality |
Option 3
Yeah, the Cracker did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Cracker | det |
| 4 | Cracker | Cracker | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | 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 | do | past | the Cracker | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nobody, cos he's the boss
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 boss | punct |
| 3 | cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 7 boss | case |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 boss | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 boss | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boss | det |
| 7 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nobody | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | cos the boss | tree rules |
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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