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Test 8 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 4: The River Bank…

The Mole gives «straight back-talk» to the moorhens. What does this show?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mole, this · What happens: give, show · To what, where: talk, moorhens

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: The Mole gives «straight back-talk» to the moorhens.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mole	det
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	nsubj
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 talk	punct
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 back	advmod
6	back	back	ADV	_	8 talk	advmod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 back	punct
8	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	obj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 talk	punct
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 moorhens	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 moorhens	det
12	moorhens	moorhen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gives	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	the Mole	talk	the moorhens				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent talk=Theme to moorhen=Recipient

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 does this show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 show	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 show	nsubj
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	this						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient

The options

Option 1

He is angry

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His spirits have come back

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 spirits	nmod:poss
2	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	present · perfect	His spirits						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

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 4 · ← Mova's choice

He is feeling bold and brave again

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 feeling	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feeling	aux
3	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feeling	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 brave	cc
6	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bold	conj
7	again	again	ADV	_	3 feeling	advmod

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

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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