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Test 7 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank…

«Dear old Badger! Nobody interferes with him. They'd better not.» What does «They'd better not» suggest?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nobody · What happens: interfere, not suggest

This is test 7 · ★★ 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: «Dear old Badger!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Badger	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Badger	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Badger	amod
4	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Badger	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: Nobody interferes with him.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 interferes	nsubj
2	interferes	interfere	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 interferes	obl
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 interferes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	interfere	present	Nobody					with Badger	tree rules

Sentence 3: They'd better not.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 better	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 better	aux
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 better	advmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 better	punct
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 better	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 4: What does «They'd better not» suggest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 suggest	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 suggest	aux
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 suggest	punct
4	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 better	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 better	aux
6	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 suggest	advmod
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 suggest	advmod
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 suggest	punct
9	suggest	suggest	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 suggest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not suggest speech: suggest	present · do-support						well property	vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

Badger is a rude old fellow indeed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 fellow	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fellow	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fellow	det
4	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fellow	amod
6	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 fellow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Badger	a rude old fellow				indeed property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Badger is strong and not to be messed with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 strong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 strong	cop
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 messed	cc
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 messed	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	8 messed	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 messed	aux:pass
8	messed	mess	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 strong	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	8 messed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Badger					strong property	tree rules
2	not mess	to-infinitive · passive	Badger not said here						tree rules

Option 3

Badger is so old and sleepy that nobody visits him in his house any more

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 old	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sleepy	cc
6	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 old	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 visits	mark
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 visits	nsubj
9	visits	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 visits	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 house	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 house	nmod:poss
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 visits	obl
14	any	any	ADV	_	15 more	advmod
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 visits	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Badger					old property	tree rules
2	be		Badger not said here						tree rules
3	visit	present	nobody	Badger		Badger's house			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Badger is so kind that nobody ever bothers him at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 kind	advmod
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 bothers	mark
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 bothers	nsubj
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 bothers	advmod
8	bothers	bother	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bothers	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 bothers	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Badger					kind property	tree rules
2	bother	present	nobody	Badger		all	ever		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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