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Test 7 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (t…

«Plates on the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf.» Can plates really grin?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Plates · What happens: grin · To what, where: pots

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: «Plates on the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 grinned	punct
2	Plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grinned	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 dresser	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dresser	det
5	dresser	dresser	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Plates	nmod
6	grinned	grin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 pots	case
8	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grinned	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 shelf	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shelf	det
11	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grinned	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grinned	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 grinned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grin in a quote	past	Plates on the dresser			pots		on the shelf	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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: Can plates really grin?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grin	aux
2	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grin	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 grin	advmod
4	grin	grin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 grin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grin	can	plates						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they are very happy plates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 plates	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 plates	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 plates	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 happy	advmod
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plates	amod
7	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	happy plates					tree rules

Option 2

No, they only sparkle in lamplight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 sparkle	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sparkle	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sparkle	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 sparkle	advmod
5	sparkle	sparkle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 lamplight	case
7	lamplight	lamplight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sparkle	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sparkle	present	they			lamplight			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lamplight=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No — the whole room just looks cheerful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 room	det
2	—	-	PUNCT	_	5 room	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 room	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 room	amod
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looks	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 looks	advmod
7	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	no whole room					cheerful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Yes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	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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