Test 5 · ★ · The Happy Prince, The Remarkable Rocket: a boastful rocket…

What did the lads reckon the rocket was?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lads · What happens: do, reckon, be · To what, where: rocket

This is test 5 · ★ 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lads	det
4	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rocket	det
7	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	obj
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reckon	present	the lads	the rocket	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent rocket=Attribute
3	be	past			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

a wooden pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pole	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pole	amod
3	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

an old stick from the bonfire pile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stick	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stick	amod
3	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 pile	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pile	det
6	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pile	compound
7	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stick	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a dead branch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 branch	det
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 branch	amod
3	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

an old stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stick	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stick	amod
3	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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