Test 2 · ★ · The Happy Prince, The Remarkable Rocket: a boastful rocket…

Why'd the duck do one, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: duck, you · What happens: do, innit · To what, where: one

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 do	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 duck	det
4	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 innit	advcl
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 do	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would	the duck	one					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality
2	innit	imperative	you not said here						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 · ✓ the right answer

She was starving, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 starving	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 starving	aux
3	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bruv	punct
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 starving	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past · progressive	She						tree rules

Option 2

Cos she fancied a snack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 fancied	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fancied	nsubj
3	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snack	det
5	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fancied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	she	a snack					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snack=Stimulus

Option 3

She was starving, bruv, and fancied some grub

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 starving	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 starving	aux
3	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bruv	punct
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 starving	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fancied	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fancied	cc
8	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 starving	conj
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 grub	det
10	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fancied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past · progressive	She						tree rules
2	fancy	past	She not said here	some grub					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grub=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

She wanted her tea, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 tea	nmod:poss
4	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tea	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	She	her tea and mate					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tea=Theme

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