Test 8 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…
Is the Rocket totally sure he's a mega genius?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rocket, he · What happens: be · To what, where: mega genius
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sure | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rocket | det |
| 3 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sure | nsubj |
| 4 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 5 sure | advmod |
| 5 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 genius | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 genius | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 genius | det |
| 9 | mega | mega | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 genius | compound |
| 10 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sure | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sure | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Rocket | sure, totally property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | he | a mega genius | tree rules |
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's dead sure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 sure | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sure | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sure | amod |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | sure 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
Nah, he's not
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 's | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 's | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 's | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | present | he | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he reckons so
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 reckons | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckons | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reckons | nsubj |
| 4 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 reckons | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | he | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: 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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