Test 17 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (t…
★★★ «In the stillness, every now and then masses of snow slid off the branches.» Which word in this lesson's story sounds just like what it names?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: masses, word · What happens: slide off, sound, name · To what, where: branches
This is test 17 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ «In the stillness, every now and then masses of snow slid off the branches.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 stillness | punct |
| 5 | In | in | ADP | _ | 7 stillness | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stillness | det |
| 7 | stillness | stillness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stillness | punct |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 masses | det |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 masses | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 masses | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 masses | advmod |
| 13 | masses | mass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stillness | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 snow | case |
| 15 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 masses | nmod |
| 16 | slid | slide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 masses | acl |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 branches | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 branches | det |
| 19 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 slid | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stillness | punct |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 stillness | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slide off in a quote | participle | every masses of snow not said here | the branches | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Agent |
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: Which word in this lesson's story sounds just like what it names?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sounds | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 story | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 lesson | det |
| 5 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 story | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 lesson | case |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 word | nmod |
| 8 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 what | advmod |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 what | case |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 names | obj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 names | nsubj |
| 13 | names | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sounds | advcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 sounds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | which word in this lesson's story | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | name | present | word | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Whumpfling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whumpfling | whumpfling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Slide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slide | slide | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Splatter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Splatter | splatter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Flop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flop | flop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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