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Test 14 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Woo…

«funguses on stumps resembled caricatures». Is the Mole scared of them at first?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: funguses, Mole · What happens: resemble, be, scare · To what, where: caricatures, Mole

This is test 14 · ★★ 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: «funguses on stumps resembled caricatures».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 resembled	punct
2	funguses	funguse	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 resembled	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 stumps	case
4	stumps	stump	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 funguses	nmod
5	resembled	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	caricatures	caricature	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 resembled	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 resembled	punct
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 resembled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resemble in a quote	past	funguses on stumps	caricatures					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: Is the Mole scared of them at first?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Mole	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mole	det
3	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	nsubj
4	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 scared	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the Mole					tree rules
2	scare	past	the Mole					of funguses = funguse	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

The options

Option 1

Yes, they frightened him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 frightened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 frightened	nsubj
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 frightened	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	past	they	him = he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No — «that was all fun»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 fun	det
2	—	-	PUNCT	_	7 fun	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 fun	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 fun	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fun	cop
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 fun	det
7	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 fun	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	that					fun property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Not at all, he ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 all	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 all	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ran	nsubj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 all	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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