--- title: Did anyone tell the Rocket to shut up? — The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The… · tree and pragmatics description: Did anyone tell the Rocket to shut up? Test 8 · ★ 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2039-pg902-part9/t8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2039-pg902-part9/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Remarkable Rocket, p… Did anyone tell the Rocket to shut up? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** anyone, Rocket · **What happens:** tell, shut up · **To what, where:** Rocket · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:t8:1 # text = Did anyone tell the Rocket to shut up? 1 Did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 2 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Rocket rocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 shut shut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | anyone | the Rocket | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent rocket=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **shut up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Rocket *not said here* | | | | | | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Yeah, Bengal ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:t8:o1:1 # text = Yeah, Bengal 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 Bengal Bengal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The Squib did, bruv ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:t8:o2:1 # text = The Squib did, bruv 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Squib Squib PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 bruv bruv NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | the Squib | bruv | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bruv=Eventuality | ### Option 3 {#o3} Yeah, the Cracker did ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:t8:o3:1 # text = Yeah, the Cracker did 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Cracker Cracker PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | the Cracker | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Nobody, cos he's the boss ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:2039-pg902-part9:t8:o4:1 # text = Nobody, cos he's the boss 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 cos cos SCONJ IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | he | | | | | cos the boss | tree rules | **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. 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