Test 7 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road…

Why do they «never admit» to Toad that his house is lovely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, house · What happens: not admit, be · To what, where: Toad

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 admit	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 admit	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 admit	nsubj
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 admit	punct
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 admit	advmod
6	admit	admit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 admit	punct
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Toad	case
9	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 admit	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 lovely	mark
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 house	nmod:poss
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lovely	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 lovely	cop
14	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 admit	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 admit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not admit speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	they		Toad				vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to toad=Recipient
2	is	present	Toad's house					lovely property	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

Because the house is so large and grand that they would feel very small in it and shy

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	6 large	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 large	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 large	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 large	advmod
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grand	cc
8	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 large	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 feel	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 feel	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 feel	aux
12	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 large	advcl
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 small	advmod
14	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 feel	xcomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 small	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 shy	cc
18	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 small	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	the house	large property	tree rules
2	be		the house not said here		tree rules
3	feel	would	they	small property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

He's boastful enough already, and they fear he would never stop talking about it

The tree, 15 words

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 boastful	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 boastful	cop
3	boastful	boastful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 boastful	advmod
5	already	already	ADV	_	3 boastful	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fear	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fear	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fear	nsubj
9	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 boastful	conj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stop	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 stop	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 stop	advmod
13	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fear	ccomp
14	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 stop	xcomp
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	He	boastful, enough property	tree rules
2	fear	present	they		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	not stop	would	he		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	talk	gerund	he not said here	about it	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 3

They think it's too grand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grand	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grand	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 grand	advmod
6	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	They						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					grand property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He's boastful enough already

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 boastful	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 boastful	cop
3	boastful	boastful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 boastful	advmod
5	already	already	ADV	_	3 boastful	advmod

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

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