Test 4 · ★ · The Happy Prince, The Remarkable Rocket: a boastful rocket…

Was the rocket dead chuffed with himself or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, chuff · To what, where: rocket

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rocket	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rocket	det
3	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dead	obl:unmarked
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dead	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 chuffed	obl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 himself	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the rocket					tree rules
2	chuff	participle						with himself = he	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, boasting all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 boasting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 boasting	punct
3	boasting	boast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boasting	obj
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 boasting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boast speech: other	gerund					day	long property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, bragging the whole time, going on about himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bragging	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bragging	punct
3	bragging	brag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bragging	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 bragging	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 going	compound:prt
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brag speech: other	gerund					time		vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go on	gerund						about himself = he	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about himself=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, bragging the whole time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bragging	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bragging	punct
3	bragging	brag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bragging	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brag speech: other	gerund					time		vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, showing off loads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 showing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 showing	punct
3	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 showing	compound:prt
5	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 showing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show off	gerund		loads					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent load=Recipient

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