Test 11 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road…

Looking back: what did the Rat say «It's my world, and I don't want any other» about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: look back, say, be, not want · To what, where: world, other · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 30 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road (Toad's canary-coloured caravan)» 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	_	8 say	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 say	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rat	det
7	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Looking	parataxis
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 world	punct
10	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 world	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 world	cop
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 world	nmod:poss
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 want	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 want	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 want	nsubj
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 want	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 want	advmod
19	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 say	conj
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 other	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 want	obj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 want	punct
23	about	about	ADP	_	19 want	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look back	gerund			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the Rat		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	Rat	my world	tree rules
4	not want in a quote	present · do-support	the Rat = rat	any other	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot other=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 · ← Mova's choice

Sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The big road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 road	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 road	amod
3	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The River

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 River	det
2	River	River	PROPN	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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