Test 13 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road…
Looking back: in chapter I, who flooded the Rat's parlour-carpet with their waves?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chapter, their · What happens: look back, flood, wave · To what, where: parlour carpet
This is test 13 · ★★★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 chapter | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 chapter | case |
| 5 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 chapter | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flooded | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 flooded | nsubj |
| 9 | flooded | flood | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chapter | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Rat | det |
| 11 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 carpet | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Rat | case |
| 13 | parlour | parlour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carpet | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 parlour | punct |
| 15 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flooded | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 waves | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 waves | nmod:poss |
| 18 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 carpet | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | in chapter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme | |||||
| 2 | flood | past | chapter | the Rat's parlour carpet | with their waves | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent carpet=Patient with wave=Instrument | |||
| 3 | wave | their = they | nom wave «event 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
Passing barges in the reeds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | barges | barge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Passing | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 reeds | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reeds | det |
| 5 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Passing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | gerund | barges | the reeds | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent barge=Theme in reed=Destination |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Careless boys on the bank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 boys | amod |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 bank | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bank | det |
| 5 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boys | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Old bottles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bottles | amod |
| 2 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Steam-launches near the bank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 launches | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Steam | punct |
| 3 | launches | launch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 bank | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bank | det |
| 6 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 launches | nmod |
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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