Test 3 · ★ · The Happy Prince, The Remarkable Rocket: a boastful rocket…

What did the rocket reckon about graft?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: rocket · What happens: reckon

This is test 3 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reckon	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rocket	det
4	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 graft	case
7	graft	graft	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the rocket					about graft	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute

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

It's for posh blokes with nothing better to do all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blokes	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 blokes	cop
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 blokes	case
4	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blokes	amod
5	blokes	bloke	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 nothing	case
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 blokes	nmod
8	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 blokes	acl:relcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 blokes	acl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl:unmarked
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for posh blokes; with nothing	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive					day	long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Only for people who're idle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 people	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 people	case
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 idle	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 idle	cop
6	idle	idle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	people					idle property	tree rules

Option 3

It's for people with nothing to do, that's what he said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 people	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 people	cop
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 people	case
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 nothing	case
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 people	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 nothing	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 what	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 what	cop
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 people	appos
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	for people; with nothing	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	that		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It's for people with nothing to do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 people	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 people	cop
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 people	case
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 nothing	case
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 people	nmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for people; with nothing	tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive							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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