Test 10 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road…

Looking back: in chapter I, what did the Rat promise the wet Mole?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: look back, promise · To what, where: chapter

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 29 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road (the Ducks' Ditty, and a visit to Toad Hall)» 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	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 chapter	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 chapter	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 promise	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 promise	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 promise	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Rat	det
11	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 promise	nsubj
12	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chapter	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Mole	det
14	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Mole	amod
15	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 promise	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund						in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	past · do-support	the Rat	chapter					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal mole=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

To teach him to row and swim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 teach	mark
2	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 teach	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 row	mark
5	row	row	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 teach	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 swim	cc
7	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 row	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	to whom	roles by
1	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	him = he	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	row	to-infinitive		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	swim	infinitive		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

To lend him a boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 lend	mark
2	lend	lend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lend	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boat	det
5	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lend	to-infinitive		a boat	him = he				vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient boat=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To take him for a long walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 take	mark
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 take	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 walk	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 walk	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 walk	amod
7	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	to-infinitive		him = he				for a long walk	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for walk=Beneficiary

Option 4

To show him the river bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 show	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bank	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bank	compound
6	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive		the river bank	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bank=Topic

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