Test 10 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (t…

Looking back: why did the Mole leave his own underground home in chapter I?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mole · What happens: look back, leave · To what, where: own underground home, chapter

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 39 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (the Otter comes through the snow, and the best home is underground)» 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	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 leave	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 leave	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 leave	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mole	det
7	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	nsubj
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Looking	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 home	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 home	amod
11	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 home	amod
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 chapter	case
14	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leave	obl
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 chapter	nsubj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	leave	past · do-support	the Mole	Mole's own underground home		chapter			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent home=Theme in chapter=Location

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

He was bored.

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 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bored	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					bored property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Spring called him up out of his spring-cleaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 called	compound:prt
5	out	out	ADP	_	10 cleaning	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 cleaning	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cleaning	nmod:poss
8	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cleaning	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 spring	punct
10	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call up speech: assert	past	Spring		him = he	his spring cleaning			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	clean		his = he						nom cleaning «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

He wanted to see the river badly

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
7	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the river				badly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus

Option 4

Spring called him up from his cleaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 called	compound:prt
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 cleaning	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cleaning	nmod:poss
7	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call up speech: assert	past	Spring	him = he		his cleaning			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from cleaning=Source
2	clean		his = he						nom cleaning «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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