Exam question 2 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

In what manner did the workman describe the Rocket upon discovering it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: workman · What happens: do, describe, discover · To what, where: manner, Rocket

This is exam question 2 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	what	what	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	6 workman	det
6	workman	workman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 describe	nsubj
7	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 did	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Rocket	det
9	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 describe	obj
10	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	11 discovering	mark
11	discovering	discover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 describe	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 discovering	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past			what manner	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	describe	infinitive	the workman	the Rocket		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent rocket=Theme
3	discover	gerund	the workman not said here	Rocket		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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

As a wet stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	4 stick	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stick	det
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stick	amod
4	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

As a very bad and useless rocket indeed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	7 rocket	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rocket	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 bad	advmod
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rocket	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 useless	cc
6	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bad	conj
7	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	7 rocket	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

As a bad rocket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	4 rocket	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rocket	det
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rocket	amod
4	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

As a bad rocket that never goes off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	4 rocket	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rocket	det
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rocket	amod
4	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 goes	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 goes	advmod
7	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rocket	acl:relcl
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 goes	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go off	present	a bad rocket						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

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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