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title: Was the rocket's bang a proper one or a dud? — The Happy Prince, The Remarkable Rocke… · tree and pragmatics
description: Was the rocket's bang a proper one or a dud? 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, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 8 · ★ · The Happy Prince, The Remarkable Rocket: a boastful rocket…

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

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

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/2041-pg902-part11/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2041-pg902-part11:t8:1
# text = Was the rocket's bang a proper one or a dud?
1	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rocket	rocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	csubj	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dud	dud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the rocket's bang |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2041-pg902-part11:t8:o1:1
# text = A proper bang, no doubt, though nobody heard it at all
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	10	nsubj	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A proper bang, no doubt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2041-pg902-part11:t8:o2:1
# text = A proper bang, no doubt
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A small bang, I think

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2041-pg902-part11:t8:o3:1
# text = A small bang, I think
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | 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 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A proper bang, no doubt, and a very loud one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2041-pg902-part11:t8:o4:1
# text = A proper bang, no doubt, and a very loud one
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bang	bang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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