Test 9 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter II, part 4: The Open Road…

Looking back: what did the Rat say about Toad in part 1 — «Always good-tempered, always glad to see you». Has Toad been good company today?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat, Toad · What happens: look back, do, say, temper, see, have · To what, where: you, good company · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: Looking back: what did the Rat say about Toad in part 1 — «Always good-tempered, always glad to see you».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 did	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rat	det
7	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 Toad	case
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 part	case
12	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Toad	nmod
13	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 part	flat
14	—	-	PUNCT	_	19 tempered	punct
15	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 tempered	punct
16	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	19 tempered	advmod
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tempered	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 good	punct
19	tempered	temper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 part	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 glad	punct
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 glad	advmod
22	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tempered	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 see	mark
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 glad	xcomp
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 see	obj
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 glad	punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	the Rat		about Toad in part	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	temper in a quote	participle			always property	tree rules
5	see in a quote	to-infinitive		you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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: Has Toad been good company today?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 company	nsubj
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 company	cop
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 company	amod
5	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Has	obj
6	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 company	nmod:unmarked
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present							vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	participle	Toad	good company			today		tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he was good company, but he was selfish, dreamy and rather noisy at times

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 company	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 company	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 company	cop
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 company	amod
6	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 selfish	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 selfish	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 selfish	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 selfish	cop
11	selfish	selfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 company	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dreamy	punct
13	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 selfish	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 noisy	cc
15	rather	rather	ADV	_	16 noisy	advmod
16	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dreamy	conj
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 times	case
18	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 noisy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	good company					tree rules
2	is a	past	he	selfish					tree rules

Option 2

No — tired and quite grumpy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 tired	det
2	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 tired	punct
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grumpy	cc
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 grumpy	advmod
6	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tired	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No — selfish, dreamy and no help at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 selfish	det
2	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 selfish	punct
3	selfish	selfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dreamy	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dreamy	punct
5	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 help	cc
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 help	det
8	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dreamy	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 dreamy	obl

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

Option 4

Yes — cheerful and kind all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 cheerful	discourse
2	—	-	PUNCT	_	3 cheerful	punct
3	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kind	cc
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cheerful	conj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cheerful	obl:unmarked

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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