Test 5 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road…

Why does the Mole not want to leave Toad in the road?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mole · What happens: not want, leave · To what, where: Toad, road

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 want	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 want	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mole	det
4	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 want	nsubj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 want	advmod
6	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 leave	mark
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 want	xcomp
9	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 leave	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 road	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 road	det
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	present · do-support	the Mole						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Mole not said here	Toad		the road			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent toad=Theme in road=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

Another car might come — it's not safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 safe	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 safe	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 safe	advmod
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 come	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	might	another car						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is	present	car					safe property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He wants to ask the farmer for help with the cart and the horse before dark

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 ask	mark
4	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 help	case
8	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 cart	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cart	det
11	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 help	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 horse	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 help	conj
15	before	before	ADP	_	16 dark	case
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here		the farmer		before dark	for help with the cart and the horse	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent farmer=Recipient

Option 3

Toad might get hurt again soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 hurt	nsubj:pass
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	aux
3	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 hurt	aux:pass
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	again	again	ADV	_	4 hurt	advmod
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 hurt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	might · passive		Toad			again	soon property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

A horse might come along the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	along	along	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	might	a horse			the road			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along road=Initial_Location

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