Test 13 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Woo…
Looking back: in chapter II, the Rat stayed with Toad because «it wouldn't be safe for him to be left to himself». Who is the Rat looking after now?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: look back, stay, not be, leave, look · To what, where: Toad
This is test 13 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: Looking back: in chapter II, the Rat stayed with Toad because «it wouldn't be safe for him to be left to himself».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 stayed | advcl |
| 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 | 1 Looking | obl |
| 6 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 5 chapter | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Rat | det |
| 9 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stayed | nsubj |
| 10 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Toad | case |
| 12 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stayed | obl |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 safe | mark |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 19 safe | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 safe | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 safe | aux |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 safe | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 safe | cop |
| 19 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stayed | advcl |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 left | mark |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 left | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 left | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 left | aux:pass |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 safe | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 himself | case |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 left | obl |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 stayed | punct |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 stayed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | the Rat not said here | in chapter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay | past | the Rat | with Toad | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with toad=Location | ||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | would | Rat | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | Toad | Toad | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to himself=Recipient |
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: Who is the Rat looking after now?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 looking | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 looking | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Rat | det |
| 4 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | nsubj |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 now | case |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 looking | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 looking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present · progressive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The Otter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Otter | det |
| 2 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Toad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Mole and Badger both
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 | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Badger | cc |
| 4 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mole | conj |
| 5 | both | both | ADV | _ | 2 Mole | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The Mole
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 | 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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