Test 12 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (b…
Looking back: in chapter I, how did the Otter sum Toad up?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: look back, do · To what, where: Otter sum
This is test 12 · ★★★ 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 | 9 did | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 chapter | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 chapter | case |
| 5 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 chapter | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 did | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 did | advmod |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sum | det |
| 11 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sum | compound |
| 12 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 did | obj |
| 13 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sum | appos |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 Toad | compound:prt |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | in chapter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | the Otter sum | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality |
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
«A good fellow, sadly»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 fellow | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fellow | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fellow | amod |
| 4 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sadly | punct |
| 6 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 4 fellow | advmod |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 fellow | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
«Such a good fellow, too … But no stability—especially in a boat!»
Sentence 1: «Such a good fellow, too …
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 fellow | punct |
| 2 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 fellow | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fellow | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fellow | amod |
| 5 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 too | punct |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 fellow | advmod |
| 8 | … | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fellow | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: But no stability—especially in a boat!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 stability | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 stability | det |
| 3 | stability | stability | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 boat | punct |
| 5 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 8 boat | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 boat | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 boat | det |
| 8 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stability | nmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 stability | punct |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 stability | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
«Such a jolly fellow, but no stability»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 fellow | punct |
| 2 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 fellow | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fellow | det |
| 4 | jolly | jolly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fellow | amod |
| 5 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stability | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 stability | cc |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 stability | det |
| 9 | stability | stability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fellow | appos |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 stability | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
«Such a good fellow, really, but a wild sort of boatman»
The tree, 11 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 fellow | punct |
| 2 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 fellow | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fellow | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fellow | amod |
| 5 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sort | punct |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 sort | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sort | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 sort | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 sort | det |
| 11 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sort | amod |
| 12 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fellow | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 boatman | case |
| 14 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sort | nmod |
| 15 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 fellow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sort in a quote | boatman | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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