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Test 2 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road…

«Nor don't the ducks neither». What is odd about the Rat's words?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Rat · What happens: do, be, word · To what, where: ducks

This is test 2 · ★★ 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: «Nor don't the ducks neither».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct
2	Nor	nor	INTJ	_	3 do	discourse
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 ducks	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ducks	det
6	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 do	obj
7	neither	neither	ADV	_	3 do	advmod
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the ducks				neither property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=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: What is odd about the Rat's words?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 odd	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 odd	cop
3	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	8 words	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Rat	det
6	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 words	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Rat	case
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 odd	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 odd	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about the Rat's words; odd property	tree rules
2	word		the Rat						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Two «no» words in a row — chatty, not school grammar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 words	nummod
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 words	punct
3	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 words	discourse
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 no	punct
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 row	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 row	det
8	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 words	nmod
9	—	-	PUNCT	_	10 chatty	punct
10	chatty	chatty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 words	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 grammar	punct
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 grammar	advmod
13	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grammar	compound
14	grammar	grammar	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chatty	conj

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

Option 2

It uses a wrong verb form

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 form	det
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 form	amod
5	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 form	compound
6	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	It	a wrong verb form					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The Rat is using dialect, and the Mole would correct him strongly if he were writing properly

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rat	det
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 using	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 using	aux
4	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	dialect	dialect	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 using	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 correct	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 correct	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mole	det
9	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 correct	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 correct	aux
11	correct	correct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 using	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 correct	obj
13	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	11 correct	advmod
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 writing	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 writing	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 writing	aux
17	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 correct	advcl
18	properly	properly	ADV	_	17 writing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · progressive	the Rat	dialect					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dialect=Patient
2	correct speech: disagree	would	the Mole		Rat			strongly property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	write a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	Mole					properly property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A word is missing here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 missing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 missing	aux
4	missing	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 missing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	present · progressive	a word			here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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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