Test 9 · ★ · The Happy Prince, The Remarkable Rocket: a boastful rocket…

What made the goose go mental?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: goose · What happens: make, go · To what, where: goose

This is test 9 · ★ 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 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 goose	det
4	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp
6	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	xcomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		the goose					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the goose not said here					mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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

It thought it was raining sticks, so it flapped about

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 raining	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 raining	aux
5	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 raining	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flapped	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 flapped	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flapped	nsubj
10	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
11	about	about	ADV	_	10 flapped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	It			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	rain	past · progressive	it	sticks		tree rules
3	flap	past	it		about property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It thought it was raining sticks

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 raining	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 raining	aux
5	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
6	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 raining	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	It						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	rain	past · progressive	it	sticks					tree rules

Option 3

It thought the sky was raining sticks and ran into the lake

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sky	det
4	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 raining	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 raining	aux
6	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
7	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 raining	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ran	cc
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 lake	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lake	det
12	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	It			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	rain	past · progressive	the sky	sticks		tree rules
3	run	past			into the lake result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into lake=Result

Option 4

It heard the boys shouting loud

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	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heard	obj
5	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 boys	acl
6	loud	loud	ADV	_	5 shouting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	It	the boys					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus
2	shout speech: express	gerund	the boys not said here					loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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