Test 3 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road…
The Rat says «I think about it—all the time!» What is he feeling?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat, he · What happens: say, think, feel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★★ 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 Rat says «I think about it—all the time!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 think | nsubj |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 think | obl |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 time | punct |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 time | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 think | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 time | punct |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 think | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | present | the Rat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | the Rat = rat | time | about Rat | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
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: What is he feeling?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 feeling | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 feeling | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 feeling | nsubj |
| 4 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present · progressive | he | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Worried that Toad will never let him go home again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Worried | worried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 let | mark |
| 3 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 let | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 let | advmod |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Worried | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | future | Toad | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | him = he not said here | again | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Homesick for his river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Homesick | Homesick | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 river | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 river | nmod:poss |
| 4 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Homesick | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Sad that the camp is wet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sad | sa | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 wet | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 camp | det |
| 4 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wet | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wet | cop |
| 6 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sad | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sa | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | the camp | wet property | tree rules |
Option 4
Angry at the bad weather
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 weather | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 weather | det |
| 4 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 weather | amod |
| 5 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Angry | obl |
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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