Test 16 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Woo…
★★★ Put in order: (a) snow begins; (b) the Rat finds the Mole; (c) the Mole sleeps; (d) they sit on a fallen tree-trunk.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ ★, snow, Rat, Mole, they · What happens: put, begin, find, sleep, sit, fall · To what, where: order, Mole, c, d, fallen tree trunk
This is test 16 · ★★ 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 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | compound |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Put | nsubj |
| 4 | Put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 order | case |
| 6 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Put | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 begins | punct |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 a | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 snow | det |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 a | punct |
| 11 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 begins | nsubj |
| 12 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Put | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 finds | punct |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 b | punct |
| 15 | b | b | NUM | _ | 19 finds | discourse |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 b | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Rat | det |
| 18 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 finds | nsubj |
| 19 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Put | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Mole | det |
| 21 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 finds | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 sleeps | punct |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 c | punct |
| 24 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sleeps | obl |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 c | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Mole | det |
| 27 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sleeps | nsubj |
| 28 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 finds | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 sit | punct |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 d | punct |
| 31 | d | D | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sit | obl |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 d | punct |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sit | nsubj |
| 34 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 finds | conj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 trunk | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 trunk | det |
| 37 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 trunk | amod |
| 38 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 trunk | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 tree | punct |
| 40 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sit | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | infinitive | ★ ★ | order | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in order=Destination | ||||
| 2 | begin | present | a snow | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | find | present | the Rat | the Mole | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sleep | present | the Mole | c | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sit | present | they | d | a fallen tree trunk | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on trunk=Location | |||
| 6 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «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
a, b
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 b | det |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 b | punct |
| 3 | b | B | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
d, a
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | d | D | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 d | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 1 d | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
b, a, c, d
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | b | B | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 c | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 c | det |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 c | punct |
| 5 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 b | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 d | punct |
| 7 | d | D | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 b | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
b, c, a, d
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | b | B | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 c | punct |
| 3 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 b | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 d | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 d | det |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 d | punct |
| 7 | d | D | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 b | conj |
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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