Test 8 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 1: The Open Road…
Looking back: in chapter I the Otter said Toad's craze was what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: I, craze, Toad · What happens: look back, say, be, craze · To what, where: chapter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★★ 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 chapter | case |
| 5 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Otter | det |
| 8 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 I | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Looking | conj |
| 10 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 craze | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Toad | case |
| 12 | craze | craze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 what | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | cop |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | I | chapter | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in chapter=Manner | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Toad's craze | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | craze | Toad | nom craze «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
A brand-new racing boat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boat | det |
| 2 | brand | brand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 new | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 brand | punct |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boat | amod |
| 5 | racing | racing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boat | compound |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A new steam-engine barge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 barge | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 barge | amod |
| 3 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 engine | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 steam | punct |
| 5 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 barge | compound |
| 6 | barge | barge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A brand-new sailing yacht
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 yacht | det |
| 2 | brand | brand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 new | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 brand | punct |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 yacht | amod |
| 5 | sailing | sailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 yacht | compound |
| 6 | yacht | yacht | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A new motor-car
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 car | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 car | amod |
| 3 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 car | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 motor | punct |
| 5 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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