Test 7 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (t…
Looking back: in chapter I, what did the Rat say lies beyond the Wild Wood?
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 7 · ★★★ 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 chapter | csubj |
| 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 | root | root |
| 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 | parataxis |
| 13 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 say | obj |
| 14 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 17 Wood | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Wood | det |
| 16 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | _ | 17 Wood | flat |
| 17 | Wood | Wood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lies | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 chapter | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past · do-support | the Rat | chapter | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme lie=Manner |
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
Another wood full of wicked animals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 wood | det |
| 2 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wood | amod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 animals | case |
| 5 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 animals | amod |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 full | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Something that doesn't matter, the far lands
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 matter | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 matter | advmod |
| 5 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Something | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lands | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lands | det |
| 8 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lands | amod |
| 9 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Something | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter | present · do-support | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
The sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sea | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The Wide World — «something that doesn't matter»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 World | det |
| 2 | Wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 World | amod |
| 3 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 something | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 something | punct |
| 6 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 World | appos |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 matter | nsubj |
| 8 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 matter | aux |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 matter | advmod |
| 10 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 something | acl:relcl |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 matter | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter in a quote | present · do-support | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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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