Test 2 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

Was the Frog, like, obsessed with his own gab?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, obsess · To what, where: Frog

This is test 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. 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Frog	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Frog	det
3	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
5	like	like	INTJ	_	3 Frog	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 obsessed	punct
7	obsessed	obsess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 Frog	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 gab	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 gab	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gab	amod
11	gab	gab	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 obsessed	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 obsessed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Frog					tree rules
2	obsess	participle		the Frog not said here				with Frog's own gab	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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, he was dead chatty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 chatty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chatty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chatty	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chatty	amod
6	chatty	chatty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					chatty property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 really	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 really	advmod
4	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he yapped on about himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 yapped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 yapped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 yapped	nsubj
4	yapped	yap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 yapped	compound:prt
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 yapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yap on	past	he					about himself = he	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about himself=Topic

Option 4

Nah, he didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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