Test 15 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Woo…
Looking back: in chapter II the Rat said of Toad «Perhaps he's not very clever». Who is shown to be clever here?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: look back, say, not be, show, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 15 · ★★★ 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: in chapter II the Rat said of Toad «Perhaps he's not very clever».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 chapter | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 chapter | case |
| 5 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 6 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 5 chapter | flat |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Rat | det |
| 8 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Toad | case |
| 11 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 clever | punct |
| 13 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 18 clever | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 clever | nsubj |
| 15 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 clever | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 clever | advmod |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 clever | advmod |
| 18 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 clever | punct |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | the Rat not said here | in chapter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Rat | of Toad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | Rat | clever, perhaps property | tree rules |
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: Who is shown to be clever here?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 shown | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shown | aux:pass |
| 3 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 clever | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 clever | cop |
| 6 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shown | xcomp |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 shown | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 shown | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · passive | here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | clever property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The Rat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Mole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Mole
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 | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Toad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | 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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