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Test 9 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank…

The Rat crashes into the bank while praising boats. Why is that funny?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat, that · What happens: crash, praise, be · To what, where: bank, boats

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: The Rat crashes into the bank while praising boats.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rat	det
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 crashes	nsubj
3	crashes	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 bank	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bank	det
6	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crashes	obl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 praising	mark
8	praising	praise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 crashes	advcl
9	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 praising	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 crashes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crash	present	the Rat					into the bank result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into bank=Result
2	praise	gerund	the Rat not said here	boats					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme

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: Why is that funny?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 funny	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 funny	cop
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 funny	nsubj
4	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 funny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					funny property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He hits the bank on purpose

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 hits	nsubj
2	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bank	det
4	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hits	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 purpose	case
6	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hits	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present	He	the bank				on purpose	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent bank=Instrument on purpose=Patient

Option 2

It is a joke

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	4 joke	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 joke	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 joke	det
4	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a joke					tree rules

Option 3

He talks about rivers while nobody listens

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 talks	nsubj
2	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 rivers	case
4	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 talks	obl
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 listens	mark
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 listens	nsubj
7	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 talks	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	He					about rivers	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about river=Topic
2	listen	present	nobody						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He's praising boats while steering badly

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	3 praising	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 praising	aux
3	praising	praise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 praising	obj
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 steering	mark
6	steering	steer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 praising	advcl
7	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 steering	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	present · progressive	He	boats					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
2	steer	gerund	He not said here					badly property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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