Test 6 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Woo…

Looking back: in chapter I, what did Badger do when he saw the picnic party?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Badger · What happens: look back, do, see · To what, where: chapter, picnic party

This is test 6 · ★★ 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 chapter	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 chapter	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 chapter	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 do	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 do	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
10	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 do	nsubj
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chapter	parataxis
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 saw	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saw	nsubj
14	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 do	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 party	det
16	picnic	picnic	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 party	compound
17	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saw	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look back	gerund			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	do	past · do-support	Badger	chapter	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	see	past	Badger	the picnic party	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer party=Stimulus

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 · ← Mova's choice

Waved and left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waved	wave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 left	cc
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Waved	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	participle							vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Said «H'm! Company» and left

Sentence 1: Said «H'm!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 'm	punct
3	H	h	INTJ	_	4 'm	discourse
4	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Said	ccomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 2: Company» and left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	»	»	PUNCT	_	1 Company	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	1 Company	cc
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Company	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave in a quote	past	Company not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Stared hard and sat down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Stared	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sat	cc
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Stared	conj
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sat	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	past						hard property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	sit down	past							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Ran away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	participle						away property	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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