Test 7 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank…

Did the Otter vanish because he was angry?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Otter · What happens: vanish, be

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 vanish	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Otter	det
3	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 vanish	nsubj
4	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 angry	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 angry	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 angry	cop
8	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 vanish	advcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 vanish	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	past · do-support	the Otter						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Otter					angry property	tree rules

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

No, he was simply bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 bored	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bored	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bored	cop
5	simply	simply	ADV	_	6 bored	advmod
6	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					bored, simply property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No: he dived after the May-fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 dived	det
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 dived	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dived	nsubj
4	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	9 fly	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fly	det
7	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fly	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 May	punct
9	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dive	past	he				after the May fly		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Yes, he was rather angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 angry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 angry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 angry	cop
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 angry	advmod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					angry property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, he was furious at the Mole for laughing at his story and wanted to escape

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 furious	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 furious	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 furious	cop
5	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 Mole	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Mole	det
8	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 furious	obl
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 laughing	mark
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 furious	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 story	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 story	nmod:poss
13	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 laughing	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wanted	cc
15	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 furious	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 escape	mark
17	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	the Mole	furious property	tree rules
2	laugh	gerund	he not said here	his story		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	want	past	he not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	escape not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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