Test 16 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter III, part 4: The Wild Woo…
★★★ The Mole retells the Rat's thinking step by step. According to him, which word did the Rat's «majestic mind» say to itself first?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Rat, majestic mind · What happens: retell, step, accord, do, say, mind · To what, where: thinking step, majestic mind, Rat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 16 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ The Mole retells the Rat's thinking step by step.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 retells | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 5 Mole | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mole | det |
| 5 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 6 | retells | retell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Rat | det |
| 8 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 step | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Rat | case |
| 10 | thinking | thinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 step | compound |
| 11 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 retells | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 step | case |
| 13 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 retells | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 retells | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retell | present | ★ ★ the Mole | the Rat's thinking step | by step | tree rules | |||
| 2 | step | the Rat | nom step «act transitive»: poss=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: According to him, which word did the Rat's «majestic mind» say to itself first?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 him | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 did | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 word | punct |
| 5 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 him | conj |
| 7 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Rat | det |
| 9 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 mind | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Rat | case |
| 11 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 mind | punct |
| 12 | majestic | majestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mind | amod |
| 13 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | obj |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 mind | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 itself | case |
| 17 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 say | obl |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 say | advmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | ★ | the Rat's majestic mind | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | the Rat's majestic mind not said here | Rat | first property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to itself=Recipient | |||
| 4 | mind in a quote | the Rat | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
«Door!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Door | punct |
| 2 | Door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Door | punct |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Door | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
«Door-scraper!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 scraper | punct |
| 2 | Door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scraper | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Door | punct |
| 4 | scraper | scraper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 scraper | punct |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 scraper | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
«Mat!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mat | punct |
| 2 | Mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mat | punct |
| 4 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mat | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
«Metal, hmm!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Metal | punct |
| 2 | Metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Metal | punct |
| 4 | hmm | hmm | INTJ | _ | 2 Metal | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Metal | punct |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Metal | punct |
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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