Test 16 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road…

★★★ How many times do the words «Up tails all!» (or «Uptails all!») appear in the whole song?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, all · What happens: do, appear · To what, where: words, whole song

This is test 16 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: ★★★ How many times do the words «Up tails all!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	6 times	case
4	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 many	advmod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 times	amod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obl
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 words	det
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	obj
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 tails	punct
11	Up	up	ADV	_	12 tails	advmod
12	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 words	nmod
13	all	all	ADV	_	12 tails	advmod
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	★	the words tails			time		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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.

Sentence 2: (or «Uptails all!») appear in the whole song?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 appear	punct
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 appear	cc
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
4	Uptails	uptails	ADV	_	5 all	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 appear	nsubj
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 all	punct
9	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 song	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 song	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 song	amod
13	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 appear	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 appear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	present	all			the whole song			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in song=Location

The options

Option 1

Four times in total, once in each verse of the whole song from start to finish

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 times	nummod
2	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 total	obl:unmarked
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 total	case
4	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 verse	punct
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 verse	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 verse	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 verse	det
9	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 total	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 song	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 song	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 song	amod
13	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 verse	nmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 start	case
15	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 song	nmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 finish	mark
17	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 start	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	to-infinitive							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	verse			the whole song from start					nom verse «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Twice, near the start and in the middle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Twice	punct
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 start	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 start	det
5	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Twice	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 middle	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 start	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

2: near the start and as the very last line

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 start	punct
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 start	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 start	det
5	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 2	appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 line	cc
7	as	as	ADP	_	11 line	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 line	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 last	advmod
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 line	amod
11	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 start	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Once, near the very start

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
3	near	near	ADP	_	6 start	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 start	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 start	advmod
6	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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