Test 6 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank…
Leo, proper nesh (feels the cold): «I'd have just sat there shivering». What did the Rat tell the Mole to do instead?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leo proper nesh, I, Rat · What happens: feel, have, sit, shiver, tell, do · To what, where: cold, Mole · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: Leo, proper nesh (feels the cold): «I'd have just sat there shivering».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 nesh | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leo | punct |
| 3 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 nesh | amod |
| 4 | nesh | nesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 feels | punct |
| 6 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nesh | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cold | det |
| 8 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feels | obj |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 feels | punct |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 have | nsubj |
| 13 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | aux |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nesh | parataxis |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 sat | advmod |
| 16 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 have | ccomp |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 sat | advmod |
| 18 | shivering | shiver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 sat | advcl |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 sat | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nesh | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | Leo proper nesh not said here | the cold | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | would | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sit in a quote | past | I not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | shiver in a quote | gerund | I not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
Sentence 2: What did the Rat tell the Mole to do instead?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 tell | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rat | det |
| 4 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mole | det |
| 7 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tell | ccomp |
| 10 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · do-support | the Rat | the Mole | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | instead property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Go home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | home | home | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Run around the field to warm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | around | around | ADP | _ | 4 field | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 field | det |
| 4 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Run | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 warm | mark |
| 6 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Run | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | imperative | you not said here | the field | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around field=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | warm | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Trot up and down till dry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trot | trot | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 Trot | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 down | cc |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 up | conj |
| 5 | till | till | ADP | _ | 6 dry | case |
| 6 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Trot | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trot | imperative | you not said here | till dry | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Sit and shiver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 shiver | cc |
| 3 | shiver | shiver | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sit | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | imperative | you not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shiver | infinitive | you not said here | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: 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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