Test 1 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (t…

Lily: «the Mole goes off home on his own cos Rat's being a pain.» Put it right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lily, Rat, you · What happens: go off, be, put · To what, where: home, own cos, pain, cos

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (the village windows and the call of 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: Lily: «the Mole goes off home on his own cos Rat's being a pain.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 goes	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 goes	punct
3	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 goes	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mole	det
5	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 goes	compound:prt
8	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goes	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 cos	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cos	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cos	amod
12	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goes	obl
13	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 pain	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 pain	cop
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 pain	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pain	det
17	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cos	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 goes	punct
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off in a quote	present	Lily	home		Mole's own cos			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on cos=Location
2	is a in a quote	present	Rat	a pain					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: Put it right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	cos				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Rat is the one who leaves, so Mole goes after him to the burrow in the wood

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 one	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 one	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 leaves	nsubj
6	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 one	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 goes	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 goes	advmod
9	Mole	Mole	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 goes	nsubj
10	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 one	parataxis
11	after	after	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 goes	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 burrow	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 burrow	det
15	burrow	burrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 goes	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 wood	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wood	det
18	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Rat	the one				tree rules
2	leave	present	the one					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	present	Mole		the wood	after Rat	to the burrow	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to burrow=Initial_Location

Option 2

The Mole runs home alone because Rat is being so horrid and selfish to him on the road

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mole	det
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runs	nsubj
3	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 runs	advmod
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 runs	advmod
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 horrid	mark
7	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 horrid	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 horrid	cop
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 horrid	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 horrid	advmod
11	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 runs	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 selfish	cc
13	selfish	selfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 horrid	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 horrid	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 road	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 road	det
18	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	the Mole			the road		alone, home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on road=Trajectory
2	is	present	Rat		Mole			horrid property	tree rules

Option 3

He stays put and waits for Rat to return

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stays	nsubj
2	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 stays	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 waits	cc
5	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stays	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 Rat	case
7	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 waits	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 return	mark
9	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 waits	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stay	present	He		tree rules
2	put	participle	He not said here		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	wait	present	He not said here	for Rat	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	return	to-infinitive	He not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He would never leave his friend, so he follows the Rat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leave	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 leave	advmod
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 friend	nmod:poss
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 follows	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 follows	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 follows	nsubj
10	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Rat	det
12	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 follows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not leave	would	He	his friend					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme
2	follow	present	friend	the Rat					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme

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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