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

Why does the Mole say he might have «lost that beautiful luncheon-basket»?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mole · What happens: do, say, have, lose · To what, where: beautiful luncheon basket · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mole	det
4	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 lost	punct
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 have	xcomp
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 basket	det
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 basket	amod
13	luncheon	luncheon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 basket	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 luncheon	punct
15	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obj
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 lost	punct
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present	the Mole		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	might	Mole		tree rules
4	lose in a quote	participle	Mole not said here	that beautiful luncheon basket	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Eventuality

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

He is hungry

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 hungry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He feels silly about the picnic he spoiled

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 feels	nsubj
2	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feels	xcomp
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 picnic	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 picnic	det
6	picnic	picnic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 silly	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spoiled	nsubj
8	spoiled	spoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 picnic	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	He					silly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	spoil	past	he	the picnic not said here					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He feels terrible about the trouble

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 feels	nsubj
2	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 feels	xcomp
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 trouble	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trouble	det
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 terrible	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	He					terrible property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

He is annoyed with the Rat for the spill

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 annoyed	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 annoyed	cop
3	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 Rat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Rat	det
6	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 annoyed	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 spill	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spill	det
9	spill	spill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 annoyed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					with the Rat; for the spill; annoyed property	tree rules

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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