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Test 4 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Woo…

The writer tells the summer like a play with flowers as actors. Why might he do that?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: writer · What happens: tell, do · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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 writer tells the summer like a play with flowers as actors.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 writer	det
2	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 summer	det
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 play	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 play	det
8	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 flowers	case
10	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 play	nmod
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 actors	case
12	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tells	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the writer				summer	like a play with flowers; as actors	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 might he do that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 do	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 do	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	might	writer	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

To show how the summer unfolded, beautiful and in order

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 beautiful	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 summer	det
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beautiful	nsubj
6	unfolded	unfold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 summer	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 beautiful	punct
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 show	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 order	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 order	case
11	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beautiful	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	unfold	participle		the summer not said here					vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

To make the reader feel bored by the long summer days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 reader	det
4	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
6	bored	bore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 feel	xcomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	11 days	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 days	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 days	amod
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 days	compound
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the reader					tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	the reader not said here						vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	bore	participle	the reader not said here				day		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To show the summer as a play so the readers can perform it on stage at school with the flowers as actors

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 summer	det
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 play	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 play	det
7	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obl
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 perform	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 readers	det
10	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 perform	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 perform	aux
12	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 show	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 perform	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 stage	case
15	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perform	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 school	case
17	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perform	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 flowers	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 flowers	det
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 perform	obl
21	as	as	ADP	_	22 actors	case
22	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 perform	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive					summer	as a play	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	perform	can	the readers	play		stage		at school; with the flowers; as actors	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

To show that the flowers were really actors who had learned their parts, and the summer was a stage for all of them to perform upon together

The tree, 27 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 actors	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 flowers	det
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 actors	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 actors	cop
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 actors	advmod
8	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 learned	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 learned	aux
11	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 actors	acl:relcl
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 parts	nmod:poss
13	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 learned	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stage	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stage	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 summer	det
17	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stage	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stage	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 stage	det
20	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 stage	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 all	nmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 perform	mark
26	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 show	advcl
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 together	case
28	together	together	ADV	_	26 perform	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the flowers	actors					tree rules
3	learn	past · perfect	actors	flowers's parts					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Topic
4	is a	past	the summer	a stage				for all	tree rules
5	perform	to-infinitive							vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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