Test 10 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road…

Looking back: what did the Rat say when Toad asked him to come?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat, Toad · What happens: look back, say, ask, come · To what, where: Rat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 31 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road (life on the road, and a motor-car)» 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	8 say	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	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	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 asked	advmod
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 come	mark
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	look back	gerund	the Rat not said here		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	ask speech: ask	past	Toad	Rat	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	Toad not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

«I refuse, and I mean it, Toad»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 refuse	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 refuse	nsubj
3	refuse	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mean	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mean	cc
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 mean	nsubj
7	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 refuse	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mean	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Toad	punct
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 refuse	vocative
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 refuse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse in a quote	present	I					Toad vocative	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	mean in a quote	present	I	it					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

«I'm not coming, and that's flat»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 coming	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 coming	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 coming	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 coming	advmod
5	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flat	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 flat	cc
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 flat	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 flat	cop
10	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 coming	conj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 coming	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come in a quote	present · progressive	I						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	that					flat property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

«Never!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Never	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Never	punct
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Never	punct

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

Option 4

«No!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct

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

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