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Test 12 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Woo…

The Rat kept saying Badger would «turn up». Had he turned up by the winter?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat, Badger · What happens: keep, say, turn up · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 33 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Wood (winter, and the Mole sets out alone)» 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: The Rat kept saying Badger would «turn up».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rat	det
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 turn	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 turn	aux
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 turn	punct
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 saying	ccomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 turn	compound:prt
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 turn	punct
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the Rat						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the Rat not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	turn up in a quote	would	Badger						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: Had he turned up by the winter?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	aux
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 turned	compound:prt
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 winter	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 winter	det
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	past · perfect	Badger				winter		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Yes, Badger came at last to the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 last	case
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Badger			last		to the river	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, Badger turned up in the autumn and the Mole was pleased to see him at the river

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 turned	compound:prt
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 autumn	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 autumn	det
8	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pleased	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Mole	det
11	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pleased	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pleased	cop
13	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turned	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 pleased	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 river	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 river	det
19	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	past	Badger				autumn		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the Mole					pleased property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	the Mole not said here	Badger		the river			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 3

Yes, Badger came to tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tea	mark
6	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Badger						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No — so the Mole set off to find him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 —	det
2	—	-	PUNCT	_	6 set	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 set	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mole	det
5	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	nsubj
6	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 set	compound:prt
8	to	to	PART	_	9 find	mark
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 set	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set off	past	the Mole						tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	the Mole not said here	Mole					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic

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