Test 12 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Woo…

Looking back: in chapter II, what did the Mole whisper to the homesick Rat on the common?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: look back

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 35 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Wood (the Rat finds the Mole, and the snow comes)» 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	19 common	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	19 common	nsubj
6	II	II	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 common	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 whisper	det
11	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whisper	compound
12	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 Rat	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Rat	det
15	homesick	homesick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Rat	amod
16	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 did	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 common	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 common	det
19	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 common	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

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'd take him for a walk

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 take	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 take	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 walk	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 walk	det
7	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	He	him = he				for a walk	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for walk=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He'd go home with him early

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 go	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 go	obl
7	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	He					with him = he; early, home property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary

Option 3

He'd bring him more bread

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 bring	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 bring	aux
3	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bring	obj
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 bread	amod
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	would	He	more bread	him = he				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bread=Theme

Option 4

He'd send a letter to Toad asking him to visit the river very soon

The tree, 15 words

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 send	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 send	aux
3	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 letter	det
5	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 send	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Toad	case
7	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 send	obl
8	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 send	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asking	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 visit	mark
11	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asking	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 visit	obj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 soon	advmod
15	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 visit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	would	He	a letter	Toad		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to toad=Destination
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	He not said here		Toad		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	visit not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the river		soon property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Co-Agent

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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