Test 3 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank…

«It's my world, and I don't want any other.» What does this tell us about the Rat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: It, I, this · What happens: be, not want, tell · To what, where: world, other, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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: «It's my world, and I don't want any other.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 world	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 world	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 world	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 world	nmod:poss
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 want	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 want	cc
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 want	nsubj
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 want	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 want	advmod
11	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 world	conj
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 other	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 want	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 world	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 world	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	It	my world					tree rules
2	not want in a quote	present · do-support	I	any other					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot other=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: What does this tell us about the Rat?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 tell	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 Rat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Rat	det
8	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	this		us			about the Rat	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He hates the Wild Wood and has never once been out of his own village

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	2 hates	nsubj
2	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Wood	det
4	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	5 Wood	flat
5	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hates	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 has	cc
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hates	conj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 once	advmod
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 has	advmod
10	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 once	advcl
11	out	out	ADP	_	15 village	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 village	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 village	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 village	amod
15	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 been	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hate	present	He	the Wild Wood			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wood=Stimulus
2	have	present	He not said here			once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	be	participle	He not said here		his own village		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out village=Location

Option 2

He is proud and wants to show off

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 proud	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 proud	cop
3	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wants	cc
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 proud	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 show	mark
7	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wants	xcomp
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 show	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	He	proud property	tree rules
2	want	present	He not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	show off not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He loves the river and is happy to stay

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 loves	nsubj
2	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loves	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 happy	cc
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 happy	cop
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 loves	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stay	mark
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 happy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	love	present	He	the river		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus
2	is	present	He not said here		happy property	tree rules
3	stay	to-infinitive	He not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He is rude and does not want guests

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 rude	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 want	cc
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 want	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 want	advmod
7	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rude	conj
8	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					rude property	tree rules
2	not want	present · do-support	He not said here	guests					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot guest=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood/t3/