Test 3 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Woo…

Why does the Mole go alone, without telling the Rat?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mole · What happens: go, tell · To what, where: Rat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mole	det
4	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 telling	punct
8	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 telling	mark
9	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 go	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Rat	det
11	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 telling	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · do-support	the Mole					alone property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	the Mole not said here		the Rat				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rat=Recipient

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.

The options

Option 1

He wanted to find Badger for himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 find	mark
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 himself	case
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	Badger				for Badger	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent badger=Theme for himself=Beneficiary

Option 2

Rat is angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 angry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He's restless and the Rat is dozing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 restless	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 restless	cop
3	restless	restless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dozing	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Rat	det
6	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dozing	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dozing	aux
8	dozing	doze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 restless	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					restless property	tree rules
2	doze	present · progressive	the Rat						vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He is lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lost	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		He					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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