Test 6 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank…
Ali, bit sus (suspicious) of it: «the Rat said everyone in the Wild Wood is nasty, innit.» Is he right?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ali, Rat · What happens: be, say, innit · To what, where: everyone, Wild Wood · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★★ 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: Ali, bit sus (suspicious) of it: «the Rat said everyone in the Wild Wood is nasty, innit.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sus | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ali | punct |
| 3 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sus | cop |
| 4 | sus | suspect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 suspicious | punct |
| 6 | suspicious | suspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sus | conj |
| 7 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 suspicious | punct |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 suspicious | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Rat | det |
| 13 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sus | parataxis |
| 15 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 said | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Wood | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Wood | det |
| 18 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | _ | 19 Wood | flat |
| 19 | Wood | Wood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 nasty | obl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 nasty | cop |
| 21 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 innit | punct |
| 23 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 nasty | discourse |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 25 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 sus | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ali | suspect property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Ali not said here | of it | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Rat | everyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent everyone=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the Wild Wood | nasty property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | innit in a quote | infinitive | 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.
Sentence 2: Is he right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Rat | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Not really, only the weasels are nasty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 really | advmod |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 nasty | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 really | punct |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 weasels | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 weasels | det |
| 6 | weasels | weasel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 nasty | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 nasty | cop |
| 8 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the weasels | nasty property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yes, all of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 all | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 all | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Yes, the foxes and weasels are bad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 bad | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 foxes | det |
| 4 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bad | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 weasels | cc |
| 6 | weasels | weasel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 foxes | conj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bad | cop |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the foxes and weasels | bad property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No: squirrels are «all right», and Badger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 squirrels | det |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 squirrels | punct |
| 3 | squirrels | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 right | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 right | cop |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 right | punct |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 right | advmod |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 right | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Badger | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Badger | cc |
| 11 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 right | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | no squirrels | Badger obl; all, right property | tree rules |
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