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

Why does the Rat say the whole food list as one long word?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: say · To what, where: whole food list · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 list	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 list	amod
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 list	compound
9	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 word	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 word	nummod
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 word	amod
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the Rat	the whole food list				as one long word	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent list=Topic

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

To show he says it fast, in one excited breath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 show	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	obj
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 show	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 breath	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 breath	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 breath	nummod
10	excited	excited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 breath	amod
11	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive				one excited breath		fast property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	he	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Because he forgot the rest of the items

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 forgot	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forgot	nsubj
3	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rest	det
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forgot	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 items	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 items	det
8	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	he	the rest of the items					tree rules

Option 3

He is poking fun at the Mole who never eats anything at all in the boat

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	3 poking	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 poking	aux
3	poking	poke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poking	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 Mole	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mole	det
7	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poking	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 eats	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 eats	advmod
10	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Mole	acl:relcl
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 eats	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 anything	nmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 boat	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boat	det
16	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	present · progressive	He	fun				at the Mole	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent fun=Instrument at mole=Theme
2	not eat	present	the Mole	anything		all		in the boat	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient

Option 4

He is showing off his knowledge of cakes

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 showing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 showing	aux
3	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 showing	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 knowledge	nmod:poss
6	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showing	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 cakes	case
8	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 knowledge	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show off	present · progressive	He	his knowledge of cakes					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent knowledge=Recipient

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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