Test 6 · ★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 3: The Wild Woo…

The Mole asked «Surely the brave Mr. Toad wouldn't mind coming here?» Why does the Rat laugh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mole, brave Toad, Rat · What happens: ask, not mind, come, laugh · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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: The Mole asked «Surely the brave Mr. Toad wouldn't mind coming here?»

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	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 mind	punct
5	Surely	surely	ADV	_	12 mind	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Toad	det
7	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Toad	amod
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Toad	nmod:desc
9	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 mind	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 mind	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 mind	advmod
12	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	ccomp
13	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 mind	xcomp
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 coming	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 mind	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 mind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the Mole			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not mind in a quote	would	the brave Toad Mr.		surely property	vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	come in a quote	gerund	the brave Toad Mr. not said here	here		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.

Sentence 2: Why does the Rat laugh?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 laugh	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 laugh	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 laugh	nsubj
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 laugh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present · do-support	the Rat						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Toad isn't brave — he only talks big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 brave	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brave	cop
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 brave	advmod
4	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 talks	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 talks	nsubj
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 talks	advmod
8	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 brave	conj
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 talks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Toad					brave property	tree rules
2	talk	present	Toad					big property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Toad is brave, but he thinks the Mole is far too silly to help

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brave	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 brave	cop
3	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 silly	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thinks	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 thinks	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thinks	nsubj
7	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 brave	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mole	det
9	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thinks	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 silly	cop
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 silly	advmod
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 silly	advmod
13	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 help	mark
15	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 silly	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Toad	brave property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	Toad		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present		far, silly property	tree rules
4	help	to-infinitive			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Toad is brave but simply does not like the Mole at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 brave	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 brave	cop
3	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 like	cc
5	simply	simply	ADV	_	8 like	advmod
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 like	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 like	advmod
8	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 brave	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Mole	det
10	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 like	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 like	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Toad					brave property	tree rules
2	not like	present · do-support	Toad not said here	the Mole		all		simply property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mole=Theme

Option 4

Toad would rather stay home and sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 stay	advmod
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 stay	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sleep	cc
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	Toad					home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	present	Toad not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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