Test 16 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank…

★★★ «Sixpence for the privilege of passing by the private road!» Who is in the wrong, as we'd see it today?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: privilege, we · What happens: pass, be, see · To what, where: privilege

This is test 16 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: ★★★ «Sixpence for the privilege of passing by the private road!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Sixpence	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Sixpence	compound
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 Sixpence	punct
5	Sixpence	sixpence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 privilege	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 privilege	det
8	privilege	privilege	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Sixpence	nmod
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 passing	mark
10	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 privilege	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 road	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 road	det
13	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 road	amod
14	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passing	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 Sixpence	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 Sixpence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass in a quote	gerund	the privilege not said here					by the private road	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by road=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.

Sentence 2: Who is in the wrong, as we'd see it today?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 wrong	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wrong	det
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 see	mark
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wrong	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	obj
12	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obl:unmarked
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules
2	see	would	we	privilege			today		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The rabbit, because the road belongs to everyone who walks it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rabbit	det
2	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 belongs	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 belongs	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 belongs	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 belongs	nsubj
7	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 everyone	case
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 belongs	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 walks	nsubj
11	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 everyone	acl:relcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 walks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	present	the rabbit					to everyone	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	walk	present		road					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Both a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	CCONJ	_	3 bit	cc:preconj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bit	det
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Rabbit alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 Rabbit	advmod

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

Option 4

The Mole only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mole	det
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 Mole	advmod

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

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