Test 5 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank…

What would a less kind friend have done after the boat went over?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kind friend, boat · What happens: do, go over

This is test 5 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 done	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 done	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 friend	det
4	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 kind	advmod
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 friend	amod
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 done	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 done	aux
8	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 went	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boat	det
11	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 done	advcl
13	over	over	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would · perfect	a kind friend						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	go over	past	the boat					over property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

Shouted and sent the Mole home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sent	advcl
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sent	cc
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mole	det
5	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	home	home	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	participle							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	send	past		the Mole				home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Theme

Option 2

Shouted, sent the Mole home, and refused to speak to him for a week

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sent	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Shouted	punct
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mole	det
5	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	home	home	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 refused	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 refused	cc
9	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 speak	mark
11	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 refused	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 speak	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 week	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 week	det
16	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 speak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	participle					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	send	past	the Mole			home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Theme
3	refuse	past					vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not speak speech: other	to-infinitive		him = he	week		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent

Option 3

Laughed at him and rowed off downstream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Laughed	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 rowed	cc
5	rowed	row	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Laughed	conj
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 rowed	compound:prt
7	downstream	downstream	ADV	_	5 rowed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past						at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	row off	past						downstream property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Scolded him and left him in the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Scolded	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 left	cc
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Scolded	conj
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	past		him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	leave	past		him = he		the water			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in water=Location

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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