Test 19 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (t…
★★★ The writer says table manners «do matter very much». Whom is he gently correcting?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★ · What happens: say, matter, correct · To what, where: table manners · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 19 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ The writer says table manners «do matter very much».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 5 writer | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 writer | det |
| 5 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 manners | compound |
| 8 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 says | obj |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 11 matter | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 matter | aux |
| 11 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 says | ccomp |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 matter | advmod |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 11 matter | punct |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | ★ ★ the writer | table manners | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | matter in a quote | present · do-support | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=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: Whom is he gently correcting?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 correcting | obj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 correcting | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 correcting | nsubj |
| 4 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 5 correcting | advmod |
| 5 | correcting | correct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 correcting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | correct speech: disagree | present · progressive | ★ | gently property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
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
Rat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The Badger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Badger | det |
| 2 | Badger | Badger | 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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