Test 5 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank…

Why do the Rat and the Otter laugh when they hear about Toad's new boat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: do, laugh, hear

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 laugh	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 laugh	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Otter	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Otter	det
7	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Rat	conj
8	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 hear	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hear	nsubj
11	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 laugh	advcl
12	about	about	ADP	_	16 boat	case
13	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 boat	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Toad	case
15	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boat	amod
16	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hear	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 laugh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	present	the Rat and the Otter not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	present	the Rat and the Otter		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hear	present	Rat	about Toad's new boat	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about boat=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Toad had shouted at them from the middle of the river and they found it amusing

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shouted	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shouted	aux
3	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shouted	obl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 middle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shouted	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 middle	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 found	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shouted	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	obj
16	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 found	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past · perfect	Toad			the middle of the river		at them = they	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	past	they	river				amusing property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

They think he cannot row

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	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 row	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 row	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 row	advmod
6	row	row	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	They						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not row	can	he						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They know it's just his latest craze

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	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 craze	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 craze	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 craze	advmod
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 craze	nmod:poss
7	latest	late	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 craze	amod
8	craze	craze	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	They						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	it	his latest craze					tree rules

Option 4

They think he is showing off again

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	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 showing	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 showing	aux
5	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 think	ccomp
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 showing	compound:prt
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 showing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	They						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	show off	present · progressive	he				again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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