Test 16 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (t…
★★★ The Mole's home calls him «with no bitterness or anger». Which word in this list would the home NOT feel?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, word · What happens: call, not feel · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 16 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ The Mole's home calls him «with no bitterness or anger».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 calls | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mole | det |
| 5 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 home | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Mole | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 8 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 calls | obj |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 13 bitterness | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 bitterness | case |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 bitterness | det |
| 13 | bitterness | bitterness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 calls | xcomp |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 anger | cc |
| 15 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bitterness | conj |
| 16 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 bitterness | punct |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 calls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | ★ ★ the Mole's home | him = he | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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: Which word in this list would the home NOT feel?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 word | det |
| 2 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 list | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 list | det |
| 5 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 word | nmod |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 feel | aux |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 home | det |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 feel | nsubj |
| 9 | NOT | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 feel | advmod |
| 10 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 feel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | would | which word in this list | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Missing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Bitter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bitter | bitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Resentment and spite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Resentment | resentment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 spite | cc |
| 3 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Resentment | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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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