Test 11 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank…

Looking back: what did the Rat say about how crowded the bank is?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat, Looking · What happens: look back, do, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 is	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Looking	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rat	det
7	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 crowded	case
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 crowded	advmod
11	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 say	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bank	det
13	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crowded	nsubj
14	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 is	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	look back	gerund		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	do	past		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	the Rat	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	be	present	Looking	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Busy folk always want something from you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 folk	amod
2	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 want	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 want	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present		Busy folk				from you; always property	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent folk=Theme something=Attribute

Option 2

Too crowded, which the Rat hates, because the Mole always wants to go home early

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 crowded	advmod
2	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hates	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 hates	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Rat	det
6	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hates	nsubj
7	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 crowded	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wants	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 wants	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Mole	det
11	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wants	nsubj
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 wants	advmod
13	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 crowded	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wants	xcomp
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 go	advmod
17	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hate	present	the Rat		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
2	want	present	the Mole	always property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Mole not said here	early, home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Everyone on it wants you to join in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 wants	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Everyone	nmod
4	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 wants	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 join	mark
7	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wants	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	7 join	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Everyone	you					tree rules
2	join in not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Too crowded — everyone wants you to do something

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 crowded	advmod
2	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	—	-	PUNCT	_	5 wants	punct
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 wants	nsubj
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 crowded	advcl
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wants	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wants	xcomp
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	everyone	you					tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	something					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

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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