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Test 4 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank…

The Mole asks if river life is dull, with no one to talk to. Why is the Rat's answer a joke?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mole, river life, answer, Rat · What happens: ask, be, talk, answer

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: The Mole asks if river life is dull, with no one to talk to.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mole	det
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 asks	nsubj
3	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 dull	mark
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 life	compound
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dull	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dull	cop
8	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 asks	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 one	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dull	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 talk	mark
14	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 one	acl
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 talk	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	the Mole						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	river life					dull property	tree rules
3	talk	to-infinitive	river life not said here						vn talk-37.5 «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.

Sentence 2: Why is the Rat's answer a joke?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 answer	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Rat	case
6	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Rat's answer					why property	tree rules
2	answer		the Rat						nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1

He says he hates visitors

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 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hates	nsubj
4	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hate	present	he	visitors					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer visitor=Stimulus

Option 2

He says the river is so lonely that he never speaks at all to anyone

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 says	nsubj
2	says	say	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	7 lonely	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lonely	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 lonely	advmod
7	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 speaks	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 speaks	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 speaks	advmod
11	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lonely	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 speaks	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 anyone	case
15	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 speaks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the river					lonely property	tree rules
3	not speak speech: other	present	he			all		to anyone	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to anyone=Co-Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He says it's far too crowded

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 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 crowded	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 crowded	cop
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 crowded	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 crowded	advmod
7	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					crowded, far property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He says he would be happy with nothing but the mud and the Mole's company

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 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happy	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 happy	cop
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 nothing	case
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 happy	obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 mud	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mud	det
11	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nothing	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 company	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Mole	det
14	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 company	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Mole	case
16	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	He						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	he					with nothing; happy property	tree rules

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