Test 9 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 3: The River Bank…

What would a polite animal on the river bank say when a friend suddenly disappears?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: polite animal, friend · What happens: say, disappear · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 say	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 say	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 animal	det
4	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 animal	amod
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 say	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 bank	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bank	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bank	compound
9	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animal	nmod
10	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 disappears	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 friend	det
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 disappears	nsubj
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	15 disappears	advmod
15	disappears	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 say	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would	a polite animal on the river bank						tree rules
2	disappear	present	a friend					suddenly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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

Well, that's odd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 odd	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 odd	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 odd	cop
5	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					odd property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod

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

Option 3

Hello

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hello	hello	INTJ	_	root	root

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

Option 4

Goodbye, old friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 friend	punct
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 friend	amod
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Goodbye	conj

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

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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