Test 13 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 2: The Open Road…

Toad calls it a «dull fusty old river». How would the Rat of chapter I answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toad, I · What happens: call, answer · To what, where: it, chapter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Toad calls it a «dull fusty old river».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 calls	nsubj
2	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 calls	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 river	det
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 river	punct
6	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 river	amod
7	fusty	fusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 river	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 river	amod
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calls	xcomp
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 river	punct
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 calls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	Toad	it					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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: How would the Rat of chapter I answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 Rat	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 Rat	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 chapter	case
6	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Rat	nmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 answer	nsubj
8	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 chapter	acl:relcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Rat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	present	I	chapter not said here					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent chapter=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It's a dull, fusty old river to Toad, but it's family, food and fun to me

The tree, 18 words

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	8 river	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 river	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 river	det
4	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 river	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dull	punct
6	fusty	fusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 river	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 river	amod
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Toad	case
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 river	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 family	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 family	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 family	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 family	cop
15	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 river	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 food	punct
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 family	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fun	cc
19	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 food	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 family	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a dull fusty old river but family and food and fun	Toad				tree rules
2	is a	present	it	family and food and fun	me				tree rules

Option 2

It's a rather dull and boring place

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	8 place	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 place	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 place	det
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	5 dull	advmod
5	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 place	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 boring	cc
7	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dull	conj
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a dull place					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It's family, food and fun to him

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	3 family	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 family	cop
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 food	punct
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 family	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fun	cc
7	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 family	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fun	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	family and food and fun to him					tree rules

Option 4

It's full of boring, slow old fish

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	3 full	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 full	cop
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 fish	case
5	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fish	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 boring	punct
7	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fish	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fish	amod
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					of boring slow old fish; full property	tree rules

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