Test 4 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

Did the Dragon-fly stick around to hear the Rocket bang on?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, hear · To what, where: Dragon fly stick, Rocket bang

This is test 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. 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stick	det
3	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 stick	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Dragon	punct
5	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stick	compound
6	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
7	around	around	ADV	_	9 hear	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hear	mark
9	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stick	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bang	det
11	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bang	compound
12	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hear	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	9 hear	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Dragon fly stick					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Eventuality
2	hear	to-infinitive		the Rocket bang				around property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bang=Stimulus

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

Yeah, he stuck around to listen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stuck	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stuck	nsubj
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	around	around	ADV	_	4 stuck	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 listen	mark
7	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stuck	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick around	past	he					around property	tree rules
2	listen	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he stayed put and listened to every word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 put	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 put	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux:pass
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 listened	cc
7	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 put	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 word	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 word	det
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · passive		he				to every word	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
2	listen	participle							vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he bolted up in the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 bolted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bolted	nsubj
4	bolted	bolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 bolted	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bolted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt up	past	he			the sky			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Trajectory

Option 4

Nah, he flew off to the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 flew	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	he					to the sky result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sky=Result

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