Test 6 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 3: The Open Road…
Why is Toad «by no means so rapturous» after the second day?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Toad · What happens: be, mean · To what, where: Toad
This is test 6 · ★★ 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 means | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Toad | cop |
| 3 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 means | nsubj |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 no | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 « | nmod |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 rapturous | advmod |
| 9 | rapturous | rapturous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 means | xcomp |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 rapturous | punct |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 day | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 13 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 means | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Toad | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | Toad | day | rapturous property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
He had to do his share of the work
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 share | nmod:poss |
| 6 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 work | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 work | det |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 share | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | He | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | He not said here | his share of the work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | share | his = he | the work | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
Option 2
He had been made to sleep in the damp tent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sleep | mark |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 tent | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tent | det |
| 9 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tent | amod |
| 10 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sleep | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | He | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | He not said here | the damp tent | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tent=Location |
Option 3
He had to wash the dishes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 wash | mark |
| 4 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dishes | det |
| 6 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wash | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | He | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wash | to-infinitive | He not said here | the dishes | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient |
Option 4
He got lost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | He | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | lose | participle | He not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: 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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