Test 6 · ★ · The Happy Prince, The Remarkable Rocket: a boastful rocket…

Why'd the rocket think he was a gold stick, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: rocket, he · What happens: think, be · To what, where: gold stick · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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 think	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 think	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rocket	det
4	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stick	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stick	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stick	det
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stick	compound
10	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 then	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 stick	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	the rocket						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	he	a gold stick			then		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 · ✓ the right answer

Cos he heard it wrong, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obj
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heard	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heard	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Cos	it				wrong property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	innit	infinitive	Cos not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Cos he got it all wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 got	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	obj
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 wrong	advmod
6	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	it				wrong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

Cos he was dead proud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 proud	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 proud	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proud	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 proud	amod
5	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					proud property	tree rules

Option 4

Cos he heard it wrong, innit, and thought it was gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obj
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heard	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
7	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heard	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 thought	cc
10	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gold	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gold	cop
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Cos	it	wrong property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	innit	infinitive	Cos not said here			tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	Cos not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	it	gold		tree rules

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