Test 11 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (b…

Looking back: before motor-cars, which crazes did Toad have, as the Rat told the Mole in chapter I?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: motor cars, Rat · What happens: look back, craze, have, tell · To what, where: Mole, chapter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 38 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (bad news of Toad, a winter promise, and two lost hedgehogs)» 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 have	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 cars	punct
4	before	before	ADP	_	7 cars	case
5	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cars	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 motor	punct
7	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crazes	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 crazes	nsubj
10	crazes	craze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cars	acl:relcl
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
12	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 told	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Rat	det
17	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 have	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Mole	det
20	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	iobj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 chapter	case
22	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	obl
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 told	nsubj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	look back	gerund	motor cars not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	craze	present	motor cars			tree rules
3	have	past · do-support	motor cars			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	the Rat	the Mole	chapter	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mole=Recipient

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

Sailing, then gardening, then house-painting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gardening	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 gardening	advmod
4	gardening	garden	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sailing	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 painting	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 painting	advmod
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 painting	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 house	punct
9	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sailing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	gerund		house painting					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	garden	gerund					then		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sailing, then punting, then house-boating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 punting	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 punting	advmod
4	punting	punt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sailing	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 boating	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 boating	advmod
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boating	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 house	punct
9	boating	boating	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sailing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	gerund		house boating					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	punt	gerund					then		vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Fishing, then rowing, then swimming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rowing	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 rowing	advmod
4	rowing	row	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Fishing	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 swimming	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 swimming	advmod
7	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 rowing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	row	gerund					then		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	swim	gerund					then		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Sailing only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	1 Sailing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	gerund							vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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