Test 6 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 3: Mr. Badger (t…

Looking back: in chapter I, what did the Rat say about rabbits?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: look back, say · To what, where: chapter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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	_	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	_	12 say	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 say	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Rat	det
11	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 chapter	acl:relcl
13	about	about	ADP	_	14 rabbits	case
14	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 say	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	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	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the Rat	chapter				about rabbits	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

«Good rabbits.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 rabbits	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rabbits	amod
3	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rabbits	punct
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 rabbits	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

«Rabbits are clever, but mostly rude»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 clever	punct
2	Rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clever	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clever	cop
4	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rude	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 rude	cc
7	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	8 rude	advmod
8	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 clever	conj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 clever	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Rabbits					clever property	tree rules
2	be in a quote		Rabbits not said here					mostly property	tree rules

Option 3

«Some are kind, but most are rude»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct
2	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 kind	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rude	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 rude	cc
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 rude	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 rude	cop
9	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kind	conj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 kind	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	Some					kind property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	most					rude property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

«Some of 'em, but rabbits are a mixed lot»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 lot	punct
2	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 lot	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 'em	case
4	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Some	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lot	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 lot	cc
7	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lot	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lot	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lot	det
10	mixed	mixed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lot	amod
11	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 lot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Some	a mixed lot					tree rules

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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