Test 12 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (t…

«Supposing a fire breaks out—where's Toad?» What does the Badger mean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Supposing, Badger · What happens: suppose, break out, be, mean · To what, where: fire, Toad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: «Supposing a fire breaks out—where's Toad?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Supposing	punct
2	Supposing	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 breaks	csubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fire	det
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Supposing	obj
5	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 breaks	compound:prt
7	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 where	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 Toad	advmod
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Toad	cop
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 breaks	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 breaks	punct
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 breaks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	suppose in a quote	gerund		a fire	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent fire=Attribute
2	break out in a quote	present	Supposing		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	is a in a quote	present		Toad	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 the Badger mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Badger	det
4	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	the Badger						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

A big house above ground can burn or fall apart, and Toad can't fix that

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 house	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 house	amod
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burn	nsubj
4	above	above	ADP	_	5 ground	case
5	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	nmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 burn	aux
7	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 fall	cc
9	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 burn	conj
10	apart	apart	ADV	_	9 fall	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fix	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fix	cc
13	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 fix	nsubj
14	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 fix	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 fix	advmod
16	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 burn	conj
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 fix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	burn	can	a big house above ground			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall apart	infinitive	a big house above ground not said here		apart property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	not fix	can	Toad	that		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent that=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Toad is always late.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 late	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 late	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 late	advmod
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 late	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Toad					always, late property	tree rules

Option 3

Toad's big house could burn, and Toad is lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 house	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Toad	case
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 house	amod
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burn	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 burn	aux
6	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lazy	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lazy	cc
9	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 lazy	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lazy	cop
11	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 burn	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	could	Toad's big house						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Toad					lazy property	tree rules

Option 4

A big house can burn, and Toad will panic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 house	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 house	amod
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burn	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 burn	aux
5	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 panic	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 panic	cc
8	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 panic	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 panic	aux
10	panic	panic	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 burn	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	can	a big house						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	panic	future	Toad						vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: 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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