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title: What's the Rocket's big thing, mate? — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics
description: What's the Rocket's big thing, mate? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 2039 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 9: the fireworks start to chatter and the Rocket brags about himself» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question a
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# Test 12 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p…

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What's the Rocket's big thing, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** big thing · **What happens:** be

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 2039 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, part 9: the fireworks start to chatter and the Rocket brags about himself» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/2039-pg902-part9/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:t12:1
# text = What's the Rocket's big thing, mate?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Rocket's big thing |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Being super sensitive, like, dead deep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:t12:o1:1
# text = Being super sensitive, like, dead deep
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	cop	_	_
2	super	super	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | sensitive, super *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Being super sensitive, like, dead deep, and he never shuts up about it

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:t12:o2:1
# text = Being super sensitive, like, dead deep, and he never shuts up about it
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	cop	_	_
2	super	super	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	shuts	shut	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | sensitive, super *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **shut up** | present | he |  |  |  |  | about it | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Being super clever, like, dead proud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:t12:o3:1
# text = Being super clever, like, dead proud
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	cop	_	_
2	super	super	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | clever, super *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Being super sensitive, like, dead deep, and all about his own amazing self

<!-- fold The tree, 13 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:t12:o4:1
# text = Being super sensitive, like, dead deep, and all about his own amazing self
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	cop	_	_
2	super	super	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	sensitive	sensitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	conj	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	amazing	amazing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | sensitive, super *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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**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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