Test 12 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank…

Looking back: why is everything in the boat so «fascinating» to the Mole?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everything · What happens: look back, be · To what, where: boat

This is test 12 · ★★ 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	12 fascinating	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 boat	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 boat	advmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 boat	cop
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 boat	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 boat	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boat	det
9	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 fascinating	advmod
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 fascinating	punct
12	fascinating	fascinating	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 fascinating	punct
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Mole	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Mole	det
16	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fascinating	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 fascinating	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	everything			the boat			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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is new paint

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 paint	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 paint	cop
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 paint	amod
4	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He had never been in a boat in his life

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	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 boat	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 boat	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 boat	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boat	det
7	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 life	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 life	nmod:poss
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boat	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle				a boat		in his life	tree rules

Option 3

It was the first time he saw a boat

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	5 time	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 time	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boat	det
9	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	the first time					tree rules
2	see	past	he	a boat					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boat=Stimulus

Option 4

He had never seen a real river before

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 seen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 seen	advmod
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 river	det
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 river	amod
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obj
8	before	before	ADV	_	4 seen	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect	He	a real river				before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus

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