Test 2 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank…

Why is «Onion-sauce!» a cheeky thing to shout at rabbits?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be, shout · To what, where: Onion sauce · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 sauce	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sauce	cop
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 sauce	punct
4	Onion	onion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sauce	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Onion	punct
6	sauce	sauce	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 sauce	punct
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 sauce	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 thing	det
10	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sauce	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 shout	mark
13	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thing	acl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 rabbits	case
15	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shout	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sauce	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		Onion sauce and a cheeky thing					tree rules
2	shout speech: express	to-infinitive						at rabbits	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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

Option 1

Onions make the Mole look silly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mole	det
4	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
6	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Onions	the Mole					tree rules
2	look	infinitive	the Mole not said here					silly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Rabbits hate onions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hate	nsubj
2	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	Rabbits	onions					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer onion=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It was eaten with roast rabbit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 eaten	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	aux:pass
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 rabbit	case
5	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rabbit	compound
6	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · passive		It				with roast rabbit	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Onions are rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Onions	onion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rude	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Onions					rude property	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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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