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title: Oi, what's the rocket actually like, mate? — The Happy Prince, The Remarkable Rocke… · tree and pragmatics
description: Oi, what's the rocket actually like, mate? Test 1 · ★ 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 1 · ★ · The Happy Prince, The Remarkable Rocket: a boastful rocket…

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Oi, what's the rocket actually like, mate?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** rocket · **What happens:** be

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This is test 1 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/2041-pg902-part11/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2041-pg902-part11:t1:1
# text = Oi, what's the rocket actually like, mate?
1	Oi	oi	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rocket	rocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the rocket  mate |  |  |  |  |  | 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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a right show-off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2041-pg902-part11:t1:o1:1
# text = a right show-off
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	off	off	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a right show-off who never shuts up about it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2041-pg902-part11:t1:o2:1
# text = a right show-off who never shuts up about it
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	off	off	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	shuts	shut	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **shut up** | present | a right show off |  |  |  |  | about off | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a bit of a poser

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2041-pg902-part11:t1:o3:1
# text = a bit of a poser
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	poser	poser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a right show-off, dead full of himself

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2041-pg902-part11:t1:o4:1
# text = a right show-off, dead full of himself
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	off	off	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	_
```

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

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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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