Test 14 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank…

Looking back: how has the Mole changed since he jeered «Onion-sauce!» at the rabbits?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Looking, he · What happens: look back, have, change, jeer · To what, where: Mole, Onion sauce

This is test 14 · ★★ 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	8 changed	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 has	advmod
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Looking	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mole	det
7	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
8	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	since	since	SCONJ	_	11 jeered	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 jeered	nsubj
11	jeered	jeer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 changed	ccomp
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 sauce	punct
13	Onion	onion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sauce	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Onion	punct
15	sauce	sauce	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 jeered	obj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 sauce	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 sauce	punct
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 rabbits	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rabbits	det
20	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 jeered	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 changed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	have	present		the Mole		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Patient
3	change	past	Looking			tree rules
4	jeer	past	he	Onion sauce	at the rabbits	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sauce=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

He becomes a sailor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sailor	det
4	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 becomes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	He	a sailor					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He learns to say sorry and be grateful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 learns	nsubj
2	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 say	mark
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 learns	xcomp
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 say	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grateful	cc
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 grateful	cop
8	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sorry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	learn	present	He			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	He not said here	sorry		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic
3	is	infinitive	He not said here		grateful property	tree rules

Option 3

He gets much bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 bigger	advmod
4	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	He					big property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

He now rows well and never gets wet at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rows	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 rows	advmod
3	rows	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 rows	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gets	cc
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 gets	advmod
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rows	conj
8	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gets	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 wet	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	row	present	He				now	well property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	not get	present	He not said here					wet property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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