Test 11 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank…

Looking back: the first time the Rat fell on his back in the boat, whose fault was it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat, boat · What happens: look back, fall, be, fault · To what, where: back, fault

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 28 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank (the Mole grabs the oars, the boat goes over, and a friendship begins)» 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	9 fell	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl:unmarked
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Rat	det
8	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 back	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 back	nmod:poss
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 boat	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 boat	det
15	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fault	punct
17	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	18 fault	nmod:poss
18	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 boat	conj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 it	cop
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fault	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	the Rat not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	fall	past	the Rat		Rat's back	time	in the boat and the boat and the boat's fault's fault	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on back=Location
3	is a	past		fault				tree rules
4	fault		the boat and the boat and fault's fault					nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

The steamer's wash knocked him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 steamer	det
2	steamer	steamer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wash	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 steamer	case
4	wash	wash	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knocked	nsubj
5	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knocked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past	the steamer's wash	him = he					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The Mole pushed him backwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mole	det
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushed	nsubj
3	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pushed	obj
5	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	3 pushed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	the Mole	him = he				backwards property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His own: he crashed while dreaming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 own	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 crashed	advcl
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 crashed	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crashed	nsubj
5	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 dreaming	mark
7	dreaming	dream	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 crashed	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crash	past	he						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	dream	gerund	he not said here						vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The Mole's fault

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mole	det
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fault	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Mole	case
4	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fault		the Mole						nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent

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