Test 12 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank…

Looking back: what had the Mole left unfinished at home that very morning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mole, home · What happens: look back, have, leave, morning · To what, where: home

This is test 12 · ★★ 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	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Looking	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mole	det
7	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	ccomp
9	unfinished	unfinished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 left	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 home	case
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 morning	nsubj
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 morning	advmod
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 home	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	have	past				tree rules
3	leave	past	the Mole	home	unfinished property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location
4	morning		home			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 · ← Mova's choice

The letter he meant to write to the Badger about the boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 letter	det
2	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 meant	nsubj
4	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 letter	acl:relcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 write	mark
6	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 meant	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Badger	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Badger	det
9	Badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 write	obl
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 boat	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boat	det
12	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Badger	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	he	the letter not said here					tree rules
2	write not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here		the Badger about the boat				vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to badger=Recipient

Option 2

The garden hedge outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hedge	det
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hedge	compound
3	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	outside	outside	ADV	_	3 hedge	advmod

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

Option 3

His letters to the Badger

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 letters	nmod:poss
2	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 Badger	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Badger	det
5	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 letters	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	letter		His = he					to the Badger	nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

His spring-cleaning

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	4 cleaning	nmod:poss
2	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cleaning	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 spring	punct
4	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean		His = he						nom cleaning «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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