Test 8 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 1: Mr. Badger (t…
Why does the kitchen feel so wonderful to Rat and Mole after this night?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: kitchen · What happens: feel
This is test 8 · ★★★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 feel | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feel | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kitchen | det |
| 4 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 wonderful | advmod |
| 7 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feel | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Rat | case |
| 9 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wonderful | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Mole | cc |
| 11 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rat | conj |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feel | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present · do-support | the kitchen | night | wonderful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
They have just escaped the cold, frightening Wild Wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 escaped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 escaped | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 escaped | advmod |
| 4 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cold | det |
| 6 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 escaped | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Wood | punct |
| 8 | frightening | frightening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Wood | amod |
| 9 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | _ | 10 Wood | flat |
| 10 | Wood | Wood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cold | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | present · perfect · passive | They | tree rules |
Option 2
After hours of terror in the dark Wild Wood, the kitchen's warmth, food and kindness feel like a rescue beyond words
The tree, 22 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 hours | case |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 feel | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 terror | case |
| 4 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 feel | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 Wood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Wood | det |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Wood | amod |
| 8 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | _ | 9 Wood | flat |
| 9 | Wood | Wood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 feel | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Wood | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kitchen | det |
| 12 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 warmth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 kitchen | case |
| 14 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 feel | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 food | punct |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 warmth | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kindness | cc |
| 18 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 warmth | conj |
| 19 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 rescue | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 rescue | det |
| 22 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 feel | obl |
| 23 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 24 words | case |
| 24 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 feel | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | the kitchen's warmth and food and kindness | the dark Wild Wood | hour | of terror; like a rescue; beyond words | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like rescue=Theme |
Option 3
They have at last reached a warm and safe home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 5 reached | mark |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 home | det |
| 7 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 home | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 safe | cc |
| 9 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 warm | conj |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | They | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | last | a warm home | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
Option 4
They are finally safe and dry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 safe | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 safe | cop |
| 3 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 4 safe | advmod |
| 4 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dry | cc |
| 6 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 safe | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | They | finally, safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | They not said here | tree rules |
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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