Test 10 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank…

Mo says: «the Mole had a big breakfast before he left home, that's why he wasn't hungry.» Put it right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mo, Mole, that, you · What happens: say, have, leave, be, not be, put · To what, where: big breakfast, breakfast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 26 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank (the picnic basket, the Wild Wood and the Wide World)» 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: Mo says: «the Mole had a big breakfast before he left home, that's why he wasn't hungry.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mo	Mo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mole	det
6	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 breakfast	det
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 breakfast	amod
10	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 left	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	nsubj
13	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	advcl
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 left	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 why	punct
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 why	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 why	cop
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 had	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hungry	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hungry	cop
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 hungry	advmod
22	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 why	advcl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mo			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	past	the Mole	a big breakfast		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient
3	leave in a quote	past	Mole		home property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	that		why property	tree rules
5	not is in a quote	past	Mole		hungry property	tree rules

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: Put it right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	breakfast				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He'd had nothing since his early start

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 had	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 had	aux
3	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 had	obj
5	since	since	ADP	_	8 start	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 start	nmod:poss
7	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 start	amod
8	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	He	nothing			since his early start		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	start		his = he						nom start «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

He had eaten a huge and filling breakfast before he left his home that morning

The tree, 15 words

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 eaten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	aux
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 breakfast	det
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 breakfast	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 filling	cc
7	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 huge	conj
8	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eaten	obj
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 left	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	nsubj
11	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 home	nmod:poss
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 morning	det
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 home	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	He	a huge breakfast	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient
2	fill	gerund	He not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	leave	past	he	his home that morning	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme

Option 3

He had a huge breakfast of bacon and eggs and then went out for a walk

The tree, 16 words

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 breakfast	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 breakfast	amod
5	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 bacon	case
7	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breakfast	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 eggs	cc
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bacon	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 went	advmod
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
13	out	out	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 walk	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 walk	det
16	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	a huge breakfast of bacon and eggs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient
2	go out	past	He not said here				then	for a walk; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He was too busy to eat anything

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	4 busy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 busy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 busy	advmod
4	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 busy	xcomp
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					busy property	tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	He not said here	anything					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient

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