Test 1 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (t…

Jack: «Badger was well chuffed to get visitors that night, he loves company.» (chuffed = pleased) Put it right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Badger, you · What happens: chuff, get, love, put · To what, where: Jack, visitors, company

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 37 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (the door in the snow and the fire-lit kitchen)» 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: Jack: «Badger was well chuffed to get visitors that night, he loves company.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 chuffed	nsubj:pass
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Jack	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 Badger	punct
4	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Jack	conj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chuffed	aux:pass
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 chuffed	advmod
7	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 chuffed	advcl
10	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 get	obj
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 loves	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 loves	nsubj
15	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 chuffed	conj
16	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 loves	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 loves	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 loves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	chuff in a quote	past · passive		Jack and Badger		well property	tree rules
2	get in a quote	to-infinitive		visitors	night		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer visitor=Stimulus
3	love in a quote	present	Badger	company			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer company=Stimulus

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: (chuffed = pleased) Put it right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 Put	punct
2	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Put	advcl
3	=	=	SYM	_	4 pleased	punct
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chuffed	conj
5	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 pleased	punct
6	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Put	obj
8	right	right	ADV	_	6 Put	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	participle	you not said here						tree rules
2	put	imperative	you not said here	company				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He grumbled and scolded at the door for ages, shouting that nobody should ring at such an hour, until at last he recognised Ratty's voice and softened

The tree, 28 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	2 grumbled	nsubj
2	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 scolded	cc
4	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grumbled	conj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scolded	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 ages	case
9	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scolded	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 shouting	punct
11	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 grumbled	advcl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 ring	mark
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	15 ring	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 ring	aux
15	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 shouting	ccomp
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 hour	case
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 hour	det:predet
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hour	det
19	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ring	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 recognised	punct
21	until	until	SCONJ	_	25 recognised	mark
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 last	case
23	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 recognised	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 recognised	nsubj
25	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grumbled	conj
26	Ratty	Ratty	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 voice	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 Ratty	case
28	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 recognised	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 softened	cc
30	softened	soften	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 recognised	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	grumble speech: other	past	He				vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	scold	past	He not said here		the door	for ages	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for age=Attribute
3	shout speech: express	gerund	He not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	ring	should	nobody			hour	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
5	recognise	past	he	Ratty's voice	last		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus
6	soften	participle	he not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

He was cross at first, but warm once he knew the callers were his friends

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	3 cross	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cross	cop
3	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 cross	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 warm	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 warm	cc
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cross	conj
9	once	once	SCONJ	_	11 knew	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knew	nsubj
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 warm	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 callers	det
13	callers	caller	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 friends	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 friends	cop
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 friends	nmod:poss
16	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 knew	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	He		cross property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here			tree rules
3	know	past	he			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	the callers	his friends		tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He grumbled at being disturbed, and only got friendly when he heard it was Ratty

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	2 grumbled	nsubj
2	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	SCONJ	_	5 disturbed	mark
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 disturbed	aux:pass
5	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 grumbled	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 got	advmod
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grumbled	conj
10	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	xcomp
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 heard	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 got	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 Ratty	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Ratty	cop
16	Ratty	Ratty	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 heard	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grumble speech: other	past	He			vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	disturb	gerund · passive	He not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	get	past	He not said here		friendly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	hear	past	he			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	it	Ratty		tree rules

Option 4

He was very cross at being disturbed, and grumbled loudly at the door until he heard it was Ratty, lost in the snow

The tree, 23 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 cross	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cross	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 cross	advmod
4	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	SCONJ	_	7 disturbed	mark
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 disturbed	aux:pass
7	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cross	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grumbled	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grumbled	cc
10	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cross	conj
11	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	10 grumbled	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 door	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 door	det
14	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grumbled	obl
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 heard	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 grumbled	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 Ratty	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Ratty	cop
20	Ratty	Ratty	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 heard	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lost	punct
22	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cross	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 snow	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 snow	det
25	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	He			cross property	tree rules
2	disturb	gerund · passive	He not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	grumble speech: other	past	He not said here		the door	loudly property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hear	past	he				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	door	Ratty			tree rules
6	lose	participle	He not said here		the snow		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in snow=Eventuality

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