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Test 14 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 2: Mr. Badger (b…

«The Mole … his heels higher than his head.» What does this picture show?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mole, this · What happens: …, picture · To what, where: heels, show

This is test 14 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: «The Mole … his heels higher than his head.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 …	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mole	det
3	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 …	nsubj
4	…	…	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heels	nmod:poss
6	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 …	obj
7	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 …	xcomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 higher	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 …	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 …	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	… in a quote	past	the Mole	Mole's heels				high property	tree rules

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: What does this picture show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 picture	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 picture	aux
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 picture	nsubj
4	picture	picture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picture	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 picture	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	picture	present · do-support	this	show					tree rules

The options

Option 1

He is sitting up straight, on a hard chair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sitting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sitting	aux
3	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 sitting	compound:prt
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	3 sitting	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 chair	punct
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 chair	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 chair	det
9	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 chair	amod
10	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	present · progressive	He			a hard chair		straight property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chair=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He is sitting up, reading a book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sitting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sitting	aux
3	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 sitting	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reading	punct
6	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sitting	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 book	det
8	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reading	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	present · progressive	He						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	read	gerund	He not said here	a book					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 3

Lying on the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 floor	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 floor	det
4	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund				the floor			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He is lying back, comfortable and happy, on the settle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lying	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lying	aux
3	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 lying	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 comfortable	punct
6	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lying	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 happy	cc
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 comfortable	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 settle	punct
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 settle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 settle	det
12	settle	settle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie back	present · progressive	He			the settle			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on settle=Location

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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