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Test 2 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (t…

Is this TRUE or FALSE? «The Badger says the people will never, ever come back.»

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: this, Badger, people · What happens: be, say, not come back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: Is this TRUE or FALSE?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 TRUE	nsubj
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 FALSE	cc
5	FALSE	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 TRUE	conj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this					true property	tree rules
2	be		this not said here						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: «The Badger says the people will never, ever come back.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Badger	det
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 come	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 come	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 come	advmod
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	the Badger						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not come back in a quote	future	the people				ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

True

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

False, never

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 False	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	1 False	advmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

False: he says they never return at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 return	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 return	advmod
7	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 return	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not return	present	they			all			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

False: he says perhaps they will, for a time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	7 will	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 will	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 time	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 time	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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