Test 11 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank…

Looking back: what was the Mole doing at «a very early hour that morning»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mole · What happens: look back, be, do · To what, where: Mole

This is test 11 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 Mole	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 Mole	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Mole	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mole	det
7	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 Mole	acl
9	at	at	ADP	_	14 hour	case
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	14 hour	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hour	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 early	advmod
13	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hour	amod
14	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	obl
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 morning	det
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	obl:unmarked
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 Mole	punct
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 Mole	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	look back	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	past		the Mole		tree rules
3	do	gerund	the Mole not said here		hour; morning	vn act-114-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Spring-cleaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cleaning	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Spring	punct
3	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Painting the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painting	paint	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Painting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	gerund		the door					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent door=Destination

Option 3

Going to find the Rat and ask him for a boat ride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 find	mark
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Going	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Rat	det
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ask	cc
7	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 find	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ask	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 ride	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 ride	det
11	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ride	compound
12	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	gerund				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find	to-infinitive	the Rat			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive		him = he	for a boat ride	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 4

Making breakfast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Making	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		breakfast					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset breakfast=Product

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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