Test 14 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road…
★★★ The motor-car is a bee at the start and «a droning bee once more» at the end. Why does the writer do this?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, writer · What happens: be, drone, do · To what, where: bee, start, this
This is test 14 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ The motor-car is a bee at the start and «a droning bee once more» at the end.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bee | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 7 car | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 car | det |
| 5 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 car | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 motor | punct |
| 7 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ★ | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 bee | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bee | det |
| 10 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 start | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 start | det |
| 13 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bee | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bee | cc |
| 15 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 bee | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bee | det |
| 17 | droning | drone | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 bee | amod |
| 18 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 start | conj |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 more | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 bee | advmod |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 bee | punct |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 end | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 end | det |
| 24 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bee | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bee | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | ★ | a bee | the start and a droning bee | at the end | tree rules | ||
| 2 | drone in a quote | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: Why does the writer do this?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 do | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 writer | det |
| 4 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · do-support | the writer | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
To show the car is loud but has no real effect
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 show | mark |
| 2 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 car | det |
| 4 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loud | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 loud | cop |
| 6 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 show | ccomp |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 has | cc |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 show | conj |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 effect | det |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 effect | amod |
| 11 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | to-infinitive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | the car | loud property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | no real effect | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
It's far away at both ends, near only for a flash
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 | 4 away | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 away | cop |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 away | advmod |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 ends | case |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 ends | det |
| 7 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 away | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flash | punct |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 flash | case |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 flash | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 flash | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 flash | det |
| 13 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ends | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | It | at both ends and a flash | away, far property | tree rules |
Option 3
To make it sound fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 make | mark |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sound | advcl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 make | obj |
| 4 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 sound | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | you not said here | it | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||||
| 2 | sound | imperative | you not said here | fast property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
It is a bee
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 | 4 bee | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bee | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bee | det |
| 4 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a bee | tree rules |
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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