Test 16 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (t…

★★★ Careful: who went on the tour of the old city's rooms after luncheon, while others argued about eels?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: others · What happens: go, argue, tour · To what, where: tour, rooms

This is test 16 · ★★★ of lesson 40 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (the city under the Wild Wood, and the way home)» 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Careful	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	4 Careful	case
4	Careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Careful	parataxis
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 tour	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tour	det
10	tour	tour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	16 rooms	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 city	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 city	amod
14	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rooms	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 city	case
16	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tour	nmod
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 luncheon	case
18	luncheon	luncheon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rooms	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 argued	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 argued	mark
21	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 argued	nsubj
22	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
23	about	about	ADP	_	24 eels	case
24	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 argued	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Careful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past			the tour of the old city's rooms after luncheon		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on tour=Location
2	argue speech: disagree	past	others			about eels	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent about eel=Topic
3	tour			the old city's rooms after luncheon			nom tour «act transitive»: of=patient

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

Everyone except the Badger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	root	root
2	except	except	ADP	_	4 Badger	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Badger	det
4	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Everyone	nmod

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

Option 2

The Otter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Otter	det
2	Otter	Otter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Only the Mole, with the Badger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 Mole	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Mole	det
3	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Mole	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 Badger	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Badger	det
7	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mole	nmod

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

Option 4

The Rat alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rat	det
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 Rat	advmod

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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