Test 1 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road…

Ben, gurt (big) fan of Toad: «Toad helped push the cart out of the ditch, proper job.» (proper job = well done) Put it right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toad, proper job · What happens: help, push, do, put · To what, where: cart, ditch, proper job

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 32 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road (the wreck of the cart, and Toad's new craze)» 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: Ben, gurt (big) fan of Toad: «Toad helped push the cart out of the ditch, proper job.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fan	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 gurt	punct
3	gurt	gurt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fan	compound
4	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 big	punct
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fan	amod
6	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 big	punct
7	fan	fan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Toad	case
9	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fan	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 helped	punct
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 helped	punct
12	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 helped	nsubj
13	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fan	conj
14	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 helped	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cart	det
16	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 push	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 ditch	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 ditch	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ditch	det
20	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 push	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 job	punct
22	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 job	amod
23	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ditch	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fan	punct
25	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 fan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help in a quote	past	Toad						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	push in a quote	infinitive	Toad not said here	the cart		the ditch and proper job			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cart=Theme out ditch=Trajectory

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: (proper job = well done) Put it right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 job	punct
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 job	amod
3	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Put	nsubj
4	=	=	SYM	_	6 done	punct
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 done	advmod
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 job	acl
7	)	)	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct
8	Put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Put	obj
10	right	right	ADV	_	8 Put	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	participle		proper job not said here				well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	put	infinitive	proper job	cart				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He pushed the cart out of the ditch and then wouldn't stop talking about it

The tree, 16 words

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 pushed	nsubj
2	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cart	det
4	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushed	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 ditch	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 ditch	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ditch	det
8	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stop	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 stop	advmod
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 stop	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 stop	advmod
13	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pushed	conj
14	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 stop	xcomp
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	He	the cart	the ditch			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cart=Theme out ditch=Trajectory
2	not stop	would	He not said here			then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	talk	gerund	He not said here				about ditch	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 2

He was too proud to push, so he rode off in the motor-car instead

The tree, 15 words

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 proud	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 proud	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 proud	advmod
4	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 push	mark
6	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 proud	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rode	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 rode	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rode	nsubj
10	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 proud	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 rode	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	16 car	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 car	det
14	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 car	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 motor	punct
16	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rode	obl
17	instead	instead	ADV	_	10 rode	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	He		proud property	tree rules
2	push	to-infinitive	He not said here			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	ride off	past	he	the motor car	instead property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He wouldn't budge from the road

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 budge	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 budge	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 budge	advmod
4	budge	budge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 budge	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not budge	would	He			the road			tree rules

Option 4

He pushed the cart out nicely

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 pushed	nsubj
2	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cart	det
4	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushed	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	2 pushed	compound:prt
6	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	2 pushed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push out	past	He	the cart				nicely property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme

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