Test 9 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 2: The River Bank…

Which is TRUE about the Wide World in the Rat's words?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: be, word · To what, where: words

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 TRUE	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 World	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 World	det
6	Wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 World	amod
7	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 TRUE	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 words	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Rat	det
10	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 words	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Rat	case
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 TRUE	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				the Rat's words		about the Wide World; true property	tree rules
2	word		the Rat						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It is full of cakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 full	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 full	cop
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 cakes	case
5	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					of cakes; full property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

«that's something that doesn't matter»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 something	punct
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 something	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 something	cop
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 matter	nsubj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 matter	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 matter	advmod
8	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 something	acl:relcl
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 matter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	that	something					tree rules
2	not matter in a quote	present · do-support							vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

It is a place the Rat loves dearly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 place	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 place	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 place	det
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Rat	det
6	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 loves	nsubj
7	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 place	acl:relcl
8	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	7 loves	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a place					tree rules
2	love	present	the Rat	a place not said here				dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus

Option 4

It is a place where animals go to live in great houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 place	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 place	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 place	det
4	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 go	advmod
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 place	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 live	mark
9	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 houses	case
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 houses	amod
12	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a place		tree rules
2	go	present	animals			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	live	to-infinitive	animals not said here		great houses	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

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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