Test 8 · ★ · The Happy Prince, The Remarkable Rocket: a boastful rocket…

Was the rocket's bang a proper one or a dud?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: bang

This is test 8 · ★ 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	5 bang	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rocket	det
3	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bang	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 rocket	case
5	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	csubj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 dud	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dud	det
11	dud	dud	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the rocket's bang					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

A proper bang, no doubt, though nobody heard it at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bang	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bang	amod
3	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 doubt	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 doubt	det
6	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bang	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	10 heard	mark
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bang	acl:relcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	nobody	doubt		all			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A proper bang, no doubt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bang	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bang	amod
3	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 doubt	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 doubt	det
6	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bang	conj

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

Option 3

A small bang, I think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bang	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bang	amod
3	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 think	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bang	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	a small bang						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A proper bang, no doubt, and a very loud one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bang	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bang	amod
3	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 doubt	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 doubt	det
6	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bang	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 one	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 one	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 loud	advmod
11	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bang	conj

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

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