Test 8 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road…

«And if ever you catch me going a-pleasuring with this provoking animal again!» What is the Rat promising himself?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: go, pleasure, provoke, be, promise · To what, where: a, animal

This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: «And if ever you catch me going a-pleasuring with this provoking animal again!»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 catch	cc
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 ever	mark
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 catch	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 catch	nsubj
6	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 going	aux
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 catch	obj
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 going	obj
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 a	punct
11	pleasuring	pleasure	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 going	xcomp
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 animal	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 animal	det
14	provoking	provoke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 animal	amod
15	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pleasuring	obl
16	again	again	ADV	_	11 pleasuring	advmod
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 going	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present	a			tree rules
2	pleasure in a quote	gerund		again	with this provoking animal	tree rules
3	provoke in a quote	gerund				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 is the Rat promising himself?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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	1 What	nsubj
5	promising	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 Rat	acl
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 promising	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Rat						tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	gerund	the Rat not said here	animal					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent himself=Theme

The options

Option 1

Never to go on a trip with Toad again, not even for a single afternoon by the river

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 go	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 go	mark
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 trip	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trip	det
6	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 Toad	case
8	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 trip	nmod
9	again	again	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 afternoon	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 afternoon	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	16 afternoon	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 afternoon	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 afternoon	det
15	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 afternoon	amod
16	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	parataxis
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 river	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 river	det
19	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	to-infinitive				a trip with Toad	again	by the river	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on trip=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Never to go on a trip with Toad again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 go	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 go	mark
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 trip	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trip	det
6	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 Toad	case
8	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 trip	nmod
9	again	again	ADV	_	3 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	to-infinitive				a trip with Toad	again		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on trip=Location

Option 3

To take Toad to the town next week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 take	mark
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 take	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obl
7	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 week	amod
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	to-infinitive		Toad		the town	week		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent toad=Theme to town=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

To go on every trip with Toad from now on, and to keep his temper for ever more

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 go	mark
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 trip	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 trip	det
5	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 Toad	case
7	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 trip	nmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 now	case
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 go	advmod
10	on	on	ADV	_	9 now	fixed
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 keep	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 keep	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 keep	mark
14	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 go	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 temper	nmod:poss
16	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 keep	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 more	case
18	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	19 more	advmod
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	to-infinitive			every trip with Toad		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on trip=Location
2	keep	to-infinitive		Toad's temper		for more	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Theme
3	temper		Toad				nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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