Test 5 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Woo…

The whistling seems «caught up and passed on throughout the whole length of the wood». What does that suggest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: whistling, that · What happens: seem, catch up, pass on, suggest

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: The whistling seems «caught up and passed on throughout the whole length of the wood».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 whistling	det
2	whistling	whistling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seems	nsubj
3	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 caught	punct
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 seems	xcomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 caught	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 passed	cc
8	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 caught	conj
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 passed	compound:prt
10	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	13 length	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 length	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 length	amod
13	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 passed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 wood	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wood	det
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 length	nmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 length	punct
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seems	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	seem	present	the whistling		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	catch up in a quote	participle	the whistling not said here		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	pass on in a quote	participle	the whistling not said here	throughout the whole length of the wood	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: 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: What does that suggest?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 suggest	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 suggest	aux
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 suggest	nsubj
4	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 suggest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	present · do-support	that						vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Many creatures signalling to each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 creatures	amod
2	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	signalling	signall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 creatures	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 each	case
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 signalling	obl
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	signall	gerund	Many creatures not said here					to each	tree rules

Option 2

The Mole's own ears playing tricks on him as he runs in circles through the trees

The tree, 17 words

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 ears	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Mole	case
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ears	amod
5	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 ears	acl
7	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 playing	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tricks	nmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 runs	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 runs	nsubj
12	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 playing	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 circles	case
14	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 runs	obl
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 trees	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 trees	det
17	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 runs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund	the Mole's own ears not said here	tricks				on him = he	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme
2	run	present	he			circles		through the trees	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory

Option 3

Hundreds of creatures pretending to be ghosts and laughing at the Mole's fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 creatures	case
3	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hundreds	nmod
4	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 creatures	acl
5	to	to	PART	_	7 ghosts	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 ghosts	cop
7	ghosts	ghost	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pretending	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 laughing	cc
9	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 pretending	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	14 fear	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Mole	det
12	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fear	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Mole	case
14	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laughing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	pretend	gerund	creatures not said here			tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	creatures not said here	ghosts		tree rules
3	laugh	gerund	creatures not said here		the Mole's fear	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fear		the Mole			nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Animals passing a warning along the line

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Animals	acl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 warning	det
4	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passing	obj
5	along	along	ADP	_	7 line	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 line	det
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund	Animals not said here	a warning		the line			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent warning=Theme along line=Destination

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/34-willows-ch3-part2-the-terror-of-the-wild-wood/t5/