Test 12 · ★ · The Happy Prince, The Remarkable Rocket: a boastful rocket…

Did the duck let the rocket bang on at her?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: duck · What happens: let · To what, where: rocket bang

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2041 «The Happy Prince, The Remarkable Rocket: a boastful rocket chats with a duck, then is burnt on a fire and falls on a goose» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duck	det
3	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	nsubj
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bang	det
6	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bang	compound
7	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 her	case
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 let	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · do-support	the duck	the rocket bang				on her = she	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent bang=Theme on she=Asset

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

Nah, she just swam off down the stream and didn't look back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 swam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swam	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 swam	advmod
5	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 swam	compound:prt
7	down	down	ADP	_	9 stream	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stream	det
9	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swam	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 look	cc
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 look	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 look	advmod
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 swam	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim off	past	she			the stream			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stream=Trajectory
2	not look back	past · do-support	she not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Nah, she just swam off down the stream, bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 swam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swam	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 swam	advmod
5	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 swam	compound:prt
7	down	down	ADP	_	9 stream	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stream	det
9	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swam	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bored	punct
11	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stream	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim off	past	she			the stream			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stream=Trajectory

Option 3

Yeah, she listened, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 listened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 listened	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 listened	nsubj
4	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 listened	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listened	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	she					mate vocative	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she just swam off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 swam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swam	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 swam	advmod
5	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 swam	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim off	past	she						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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