Test 5 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Woo…

Why would Toad not come here alone «for a whole hatful of golden guineas»?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toad · What happens: not come

This is test 5 · ★★ 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 come	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 come	advmod
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 come	advmod
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 hatful	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 hatful	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hatful	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hatful	amod
12	hatful	hatful	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 guineas	case
14	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 guineas	amod
15	guineas	guinea	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hatful	nmod
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 hatful	punct
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	would	Toad			here		for a whole hatful of golden guineas; alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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

He is a coward and would never go, even if the Mole begged him kindly

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	4 coward	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 coward	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coward	det
4	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 go	cc
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 go	advmod
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 coward	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 begged	punct
10	even	even	ADV	_	14 begged	advmod
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 begged	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Mole	det
13	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 begged	nsubj
14	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 coward	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 begged	obj
16	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	14 begged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a coward			tree rules
2	not go	would	He not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	beg speech: request a condition, not said to happen	past	the Mole		him = he	kindly property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He's a coward, for all his boasting

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	4 coward	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 coward	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coward	det
4	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 boasting	punct
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 boasting	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 boasting	det:predet
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 boasting	nmod:poss
9	boasting	boasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coward	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a coward and his boasting					tree rules

Option 3

He hates the cold and the snow

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	2 hates	nsubj
2	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cold	det
4	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hates	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 snow	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snow	det
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	He	the cold and the snow					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cold=Stimulus

Option 4

He's too lazy to 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	4 lazy	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 lazy	advmod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 walk	mark
6	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lazy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					lazy property	tree rules
2	walk	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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