Test 14 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Woo…
Looking back: chapter III began with the Mole wanting to meet Badger. Where has it brought him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Looking, Mole · What happens: look back, begin, want, meet, have, bring · To what, where: chapter, Badger
This is test 14 · ★★★ of lesson 36 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Wood (the door-scraper, the door-mat, and a green door)» 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: chapter III began with the Mole wanting to meet Badger.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 began | csubj |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 chapter | punct |
| 4 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 5 | III | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 4 chapter | flat |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Mole | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Mole | det |
| 9 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | obl |
| 10 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 began | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 meet | mark |
| 12 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wanting | xcomp |
| 13 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 meet | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | chapter | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | Looking | with the Mole | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with mole=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | want | gerund | Looking not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | meet not said to happen | to-infinitive | Looking not said here | Badger | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badger=Co-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.
Sentence 2: Where has it brought him?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 2 has | advmod |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | ccomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | obj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | bring | past | Mole | Badger | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
To Toad's front gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 5 gate | case |
| 2 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 gate | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Toad | case |
| 4 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gate | amod |
| 5 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
To Badger's front door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 2 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 door | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Badger | case |
| 4 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 door | amod |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
To the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 river | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 river | det |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Home | home | 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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