Test 15 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road…

★★★ «bottles were certainly flung, and from steamers» (chapter I) and «roadhogs» (now). What do the Rat's two complaints share?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, two complaints, Rat · What happens: fling, chapter, be, share, complain · To what, where: ★

This is test 15 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ «bottles were certainly flung, and from steamers» (chapter I) and «roadhogs» (now).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 flung	nsubj:pass
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 flung	punct
5	bottles	bottle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 flung	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 flung	aux:pass
7	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	8 flung	advmod
8	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 steamers	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 steamers	cc
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 steamers	case
12	steamers	steamer	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 flung	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 steamers	punct
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 chapter	punct
15	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 steamers	appos
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 chapter	nsubj
17	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 chapter	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 roadhogs	cc
19	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 roadhogs	punct
20	roadhogs	roadhog	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 steamers	conj
21	»	»	PUNCT	_	20 roadhogs	punct
22	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 now	punct
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 roadhogs	advmod
24	)	)	PUNCT	_	23 now	punct
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 flung	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fling in a quote	past · passive		★				certainly property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	chapter		I						tree rules

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 do the Rat's two complaints share?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 complaints	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Rat	case
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 complaints	nummod
7	complaints	complaint	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 share	nsubj
8	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	is a	present		tree rules
2	share	present	the Rat's two complaints	tree rules
3	complain		the Rat	nom complaint «state intransitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Careless people with fast machines who ruin the peace of the river and the roads

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ruin	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 machines	case
4	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 machines	amod
5	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 people	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 ruin	nsubj
7	ruin	ruin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 peace	det
9	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ruin	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 peace	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 roads	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 roads	det
15	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 peace	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ruin	present	Careless people with fast machines	the peace of the river and the roads					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient
2	pacify			the river					nom peace «state transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

Bad horses on the country road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 horses	amod
2	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 road	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 road	compound
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horses	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Rich gentlemen who ride about in steamers and motor-cars and waste the fishing

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gentlemen	amod
2	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ride	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 ride	nsubj
4	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 ride	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 steamers	case
7	steamers	steamer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ride	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cars	cc
9	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cars	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 motor	punct
11	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 steamers	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 waste	cc
13	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ride	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fishing	det
15	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 waste	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	present	Rich gentlemen			steamers and motor cars		about property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	waste	infinitive	Rich gentlemen not said here	the fishing					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fishing=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Careless people with fast machines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 machines	case
4	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 machines	amod
5	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 people	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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