Test 9 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 1: The Wild Woo…

Looking back: at the end of chapter II, what did Toad order?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toad · What happens: look back, order · To what, where: end

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 end	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 end	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 end	det
6	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 order	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 chapter	case
8	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 end	nmod
9	II	II	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	8 chapter	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 order	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 order	obj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 order	aux
13	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 order	nsubj
14	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Looking	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	order	past · do-support	Toad				at the end of chapter		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent what=Theme at end=Asset

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

A large and very expensive motor-car, painted yellow, and a second one for his friends

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 car	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 car	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 expensive	cc
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 expensive	advmod
5	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 large	conj
6	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 car	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 motor	punct
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 painted	punct
10	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 car	acl
11	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 painted	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 one	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 one	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 one	det
15	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 one	amod
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 car	appos
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 friends	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 friends	nmod:poss
19	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle		a large motor car not said here				yellow property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A large and very expensive motor-car with brass lamps, leather seats and a horn

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 car	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 car	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 expensive	cc
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 expensive	advmod
5	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 large	conj
6	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 car	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 motor	punct
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 lamps	case
10	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lamps	compound
11	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 car	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seats	punct
13	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seats	compound
14	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lamps	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 horn	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 horn	det
17	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lamps	conj

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

Option 3

A large and very expensive pony

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pony	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pony	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 expensive	cc
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 expensive	advmod
5	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 large	conj
6	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A large and very expensive motor-car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 car	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 car	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 expensive	cc
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 expensive	advmod
5	expensive	expensive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 large	conj
6	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 car	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 motor	punct
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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