Test 8 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IV, part 4: Mr. Badger (t…
Looking back: where did the Mole hide in chapter III when he was too tired to run?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Looking, he · What happens: look back, do, hide, be, run · To what, where: Mole, chapter
This is test 8 · ★★★ 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 | 8 hide | csubj |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 did | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Looking | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mole | det |
| 7 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 chapter | case |
| 10 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hide | obl |
| 11 | III | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 10 chapter | flat |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 tired | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tired | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 tired | cop |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 tired | advmod |
| 16 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hide | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 run | mark |
| 18 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 tired | xcomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 hide | 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 | do | past | the Mole | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | hide | present | Looking | chapter | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chapter=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | he | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | run | to-infinitive | he not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
In a ditch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 ditch | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ditch | det |
| 3 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Under the roots of a fallen oak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 roots | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roots | det |
| 3 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 oak | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 oak | det |
| 6 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 oak | amod |
| 7 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roots | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
In the hollow of an old beech tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 hollow | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hollow | det |
| 3 | hollow | hollow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tree | amod |
| 7 | beech | beech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hollow | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Under a bridge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 bridge | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bridge | det |
| 3 | bridge | bridge | 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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