Test 2 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Woo…

Why does the Rat call out «cheerfully», not fearfully?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: call out

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 call	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 call	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 call	nsubj
5	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 call	compound:prt
7	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 cheerfully	punct
8	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	_	5 call	advmod
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 cheerfully	punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fearfully	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 fearfully	advmod
12	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	_	8 cheerfully	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	present · do-support	the Rat					cheerfully property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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

Because he was frightened of the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 frightened	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 frightened	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frightened	aux:pass
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 dark	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dark	det
7	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frightened	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		he				of the dark	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

To make the Mole think he's afraid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 think	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mole	det
4	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 afraid	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 afraid	cop
8	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the Mole		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mole=Product
2	think speech: other	present				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	he		afraid property	tree rules

Option 3

Because he wanted the Mole to know that he was lost in the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 wanted	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mole	det
5	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 know	mark
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 lost	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lost	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lost	aux:pass
11	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 know	ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 wood	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wood	det
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	want	past	he	the Mole		tree rules
2	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Mole not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	lose	past · passive		he	the wood	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To sound brave and comfort the Mole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sound	mark
2	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sound	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 comfort	cc
5	comfort	comfort	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 sound	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mole	det
7	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comfort	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	to-infinitive						brave property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	comfort	infinitive		the Mole					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mole=Experiencer

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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