Exam question 1 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

In which manner did the Rocket fail to perform at the celebration?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: do, perform · To what, where: Rocket fail, manner, celebration

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2040 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 2: the Rocket sulks in the mud and boasts to a Frog and a Dragon-fly» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fail	det
6	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fail	compound
7	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 perform	mark
9	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fail	acl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 celebration	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 celebration	det
12	celebration	celebration	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 perform	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Rocket fail		which manner			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fail=Eventuality
2	perform	to-infinitive		the Rocket fail not said here		the celebration			vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: 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

He was too wet to go off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wet	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wet	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 wet	advmod
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wet	advcl
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 go	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					wet property	tree rules
2	go off	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He could not go off at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 go	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go off	could	He			all			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 3

He went off in the wrong way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 way	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	He			the wrong way			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location

Option 4

He could not go off at all because he was soaked through

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 go	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 go	obl
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 soaked	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 soaked	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 soaked	aux:pass
11	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 go	advcl
12	through	through	ADP	_	11 soaked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go off	could	He			all			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location
2	soak	past · passive		he					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source

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