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Test 13 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Woo…

The Wild Wood is «like a black reef in some still southern sea». Why is a reef a scary thing to compare it to?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Wild Wood, reef · What happens: be, compare · To what, where: southern sea, scary thing, reef

This is test 13 · ★★ 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 Wild Wood is «like a black reef in some still southern sea».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Wood	det
2	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	3 Wood	flat
3	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 reef	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 reef	cop
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 reef	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 reef	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 reef	det
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 reef	amod
9	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 sea	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 sea	det
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 southern	advmod
13	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sea	amod
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reef	nmod
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 sea	punct
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 reef	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the Wild Wood			some southern sea		like a black reef	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: Why is a reef a scary thing to compare it to?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 thing	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 reef	det
4	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thing	nsubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 compare	mark
9	compare	compare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thing	acl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 compare	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	9 compare	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a reef	a scary thing					tree rules
2	compare	to-infinitive		reef					vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

The options

Option 1

Reefs are warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reefs	reef	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 warm	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 warm	cop
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Reefs					warm property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Reefs wreck ships that come too close

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reefs	reef	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wreck	nsubj
2	wreck	wreck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wreck	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ships	acl:relcl
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 close	advmod
7	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 come	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wreck	present	Reefs	ships					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient
2	come	present	ships					close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Reefs are pretty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reefs	reef	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	2 are	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	Reefs					pretty property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Reefs are home to many small fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reefs	reef	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 home	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 home	cop
3	home	home	ADV	_	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 fish	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fish	amod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fish	amod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 home	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Reefs					to many small fish; home property	tree rules

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