Test 9 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 2: The Wild Woo…

Looking back: what did the Rat «vainly» try to shield the Mole from, according to the book?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: look back, try, shield, accord · To what, where: Mole

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 try	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 try	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 try	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rat	det
7	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 try	nsubj
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 vainly	punct
9	vainly	vainly	ADV	_	11 try	parataxis
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 vainly	punct
11	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Looking	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 shield	mark
13	shield	shield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 try	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Mole	det
15	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shield	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	13 shield	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 book	punct
18	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 book	case
19	to	to	ADP	_	18 according	fixed
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 book	det
21	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund			accord the book	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	try	past · do-support	the Rat			tree rules
3	shield not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Rat not said here	the Mole		tree rules
4	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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.

The options

Option 1

The sight of the sad, bleeding faces lurking in the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sight	det
2	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 faces	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 faces	det
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 faces	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bleeding	punct
7	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 faces	amod
8	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sight	nmod
9	lurking	lurk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 faces	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 trees	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 trees	det
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lurking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bleed	gerund				vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	lurk	gerund	the sad bleeding faces not said here		the trees	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location
3	sight			the sad bleeding faces		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The Wild Wood's Hidden Fear

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	6 Fear	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Wood	case
5	Hidden	Hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Fear	compound
6	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear		the Wild Wood						nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

The long, cold winter that was coming soon to the whole river valley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 winter	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 winter	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 long	punct
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 winter	amod
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 coming	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 coming	aux
8	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 winter	acl:relcl
9	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 coming	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	14 valley	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 valley	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 valley	amod
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 valley	compound
14	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · progressive	the long cold winter			the whole river valley		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to valley=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Terror of the Wild Wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Terror	det
2	Terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Wood	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wood	det
5	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	6 Wood	flat
6	Wood	Wood	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Terror	nmod

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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