Test 6 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank…

How does the Rat's face appear to the Mole bit by bit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, appear · To what, where: face

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 appear	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 face	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Rat	case
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
7	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 bit	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bit	det
10	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bit	compound
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appear	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 bit	case
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appear	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 appear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the Rat's face					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Eventuality
2	appear	present						to the Mole bit; by bit	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by bit=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

A whole face at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 face	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 face	amod
3	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 face	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A twinkle, an eye, then a face round it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 twinkle	det
2	twinkle	twinkle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eye	punct
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 eye	det
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 twinkle	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 face	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 face	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 face	det
9	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 twinkle	conj
10	round	round	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 face	nmod

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

Option 3

A loud voice and then a wave of arms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 voice	det
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 voice	amod
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wave	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 wave	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wave	det
7	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 voice	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 arms	case
9	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wave	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave			arms					nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

A hat, then a beard, then a grin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hat	det
2	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 beard	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 beard	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 beard	det
6	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hat	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grin	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 grin	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 grin	det
10	grin	grin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hat	conj

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

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