Test 13 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road…

Looking back: what did the Rat promise Toad's crazes always do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crazes, Toad · What happens: look back, do, craze · To what, where: Rat promise

This is test 13 · ★★ 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	5 did	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 promise	det
7	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 promise	compound
8	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 crazes	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Toad	case
11	crazes	craze	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 do	nsubj
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 do	advmod
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 promise	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	do	past		the Rat promise		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality
3	do	present	Toad's crazes	the Rat promise not said here	always property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality
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

Ended in a terrible accident

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 accident	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 accident	det
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 accident	amod
5	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	participle				a terrible accident			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

Last until he was bored and then ended quietly in the autumn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 bored	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bored	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bored	cop
5	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Last	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ended	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 ended	advmod
8	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Last	conj
9	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	8 ended	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 autumn	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 autumn	det
12	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					bored property	tree rules
2	end	past					then; autumn	quietly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Left him feeling very sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Left	obj
3	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Left	xcomp
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 sorry	advmod
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feeling	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past		him = he					tree rules
2	feel	gerund	him = he not said here					sorry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Never take very long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 take	advmod
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not take	imperative	you not said here						vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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