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Test 10 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank…

«the Mole was bent on enjoying everything». What does «bent on» mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: bend, enjoy, bent on, mean · To what, where: Mole, everything

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 27 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank (the Otter, a glimpse of Badger, and Toad in his new boat)» 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 was bent on enjoying everything».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 bent	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mole	det
3	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bent	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bent	aux:pass
5	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 enjoying	mark
7	enjoying	enjoy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 bent	advcl
8	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 enjoying	obj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 bent	punct
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend in a quote	past · passive		the Mole					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material
2	enjoy in a quote	gerund		everything					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus

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 «bent on» mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 bent	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bent	aux
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 bent	punct
4	bent	bent	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 bent	compound:prt
6	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 bent	punct
7	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 bent	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bent	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bent on in a quote	present · do-support							tree rules
2	mean	infinitive							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Stooping over and carefully examining something on the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stooping	stoop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	over	over	ADV	_	1 Stooping	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 examining	cc
4	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	5 examining	advmod
5	examining	examine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Stooping	conj
6	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 examining	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 examining	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stoop over	gerund						over property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	examine	gerund		something		the ground		carefully property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme

Option 2

Bending down to pick up every single thing in the boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Bending	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 pick	mark
4	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bending	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 pick	compound:prt
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 thing	det
7	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pick	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 boat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boat	det
11	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend down	gerund						down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pick up	to-infinitive		every single thing		the boat			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

Option 3

Set on doing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	SCONJ	_	3 doing	mark
3	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Set	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	do	gerund							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Determined to

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	1 Determined	xcomp

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

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