Test 9 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

Is the Bengal Light on the Rocket's side?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Bengal Light, side

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Light	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Light	det
3	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Light	compound
4	Light	Light	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 side	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rocket	det
7	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 side	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Rocket	case
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Light	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Light	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the Bengal Light		the Rocket's side			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

Nah, he sided with the Squib

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sided	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sided	nsubj
4	sided	side	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 Squib	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Squib	det
7	Squib	squib	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sided	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	side	past	he					with the Squib	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with squib=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he was on the Rocket's side, cos he got cheeky at the Cracker

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 side	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 side	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 side	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 side	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 side	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rocket	det
7	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 side	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Rocket	case
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 got	punct
11	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	13 got	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 got	nsubj
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 side	acl:relcl
14	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 got	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 Cracker	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Cracker	det
17	Cracker	Cracker	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			the Rocket's side			tree rules
2	get	past	he	the Rocket's side not said here		the Cracker		cheeky property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent side=Theme at cracker=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he got cheeky at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he					at him = he; cheeky property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Yeah, he backed him up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 backed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 backed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 backed	nsubj
4	backed	back	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 backed	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 backed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	back up	past	he	him = he					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2039-pg902-part9/t9/