Test 13 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank…

How do we know the Mole is happy when he first comes up into the meadow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we, Mole, he · What happens: know, be, come up · To what, where: meadow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 25 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat)» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 know	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mole	det
6	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 happy	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 happy	cop
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 know	ccomp
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 comes	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 comes	nsubj
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 comes	advmod
12	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 know	advcl
13	up	up	ADV	_	12 comes	advmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 meadow	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 meadow	det
16	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comes	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	know	present · do-support	we			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	the Mole		happy property	tree rules
3	come up	present	he	the meadow	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into meadow=Initial_Location

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 · ← Mova's choice

He rushes around the meadow shouting and waving at the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rushes	nsubj
2	rushes	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADP	_	5 meadow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meadow	det
5	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rushes	obl
6	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rushes	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 waving	cc
8	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 shouting	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 trees	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 waving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	rush	present	He	the meadow	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around meadow=Trajectory
2	shout speech: express	gerund	He not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wave	gerund	He not said here	the trees	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at tree=Location

Option 2

He rolls over in the warm grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rolls	nsubj
2	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	over	over	ADV	_	2 rolls	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grass	det
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grass	amod
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rolls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll over	present	He			the warm grass		over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grass=Trajectory

Option 3

He waves his paws in the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waves	nsubj
2	waves	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 paws	nmod:poss
4	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waves	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 waves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	present	He	his paws				in the air	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent paw=Patient in air=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He jumps off all four legs at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumps	nsubj
2	jumps	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 jumps	compound:prt
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 legs	det
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 legs	nummod
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 jumps	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 jumps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump off	present	He	all four legs					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent leg=Theme at once=Trajectory

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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