Test 14 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Woo…

Why does the Rat take weapons this time, when he goes nowhere else armed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: take, go · To what, where: weapons

This is test 14 · ★★★ of lesson 34 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Wood (the faces, the whistling, the pattering — and the Rat sets out)» 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 take	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obj
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 goes	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 goes	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 goes	nsubj
12	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 take	advcl
13	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 goes	advmod
14	else	else	ADV	_	13 nowhere	advmod
15	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 goes	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · do-support	the Rat	weapons			time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme
2	go	present	Rat					armed, nowhere property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

He wants to be brave tonight

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 brave	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 brave	cop
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tonight	amod
6	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	He				tonight		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is	to-infinitive						brave property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Wild Wood is dangerous for small animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Wood	det
2	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	3 Wood	flat
3	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dangerous	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	cop
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 animals	case
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 animals	amod
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dangerous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Wild Wood					for small animals; dangerous property	tree rules

Option 3

He is going out at night

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 going	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 going	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	present · progressive	He				night		vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The Mole is in trouble there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mole	det
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trouble	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trouble	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 trouble	case
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 trouble	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Mole			trouble; there			tree rules

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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