Exam question 4 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

Which creature departed upon the Rocket continuing to speak?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature · What happens: depart, continue, speak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 departed	nsubj
3	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 Rocket	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Rocket	det
6	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 departed	obl
7	continuing	continue	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 departed	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 speak	mark
9	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 continuing	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 departed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	depart	past	which creature	upon the Rocket	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	continue	gerund	which creature not said here		vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	which creature not said here		vn talk-37.5 «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 · ← Mova's choice

The Moth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moth	det
2	Moth	moth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Bee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bee	det
2	Bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Dragon-fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fly	det
2	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fly	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Dragon	punct
4	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The Butterfly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Butterfly	det
2	Butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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