Test 2 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (t…

Is this TRUE or FALSE? «The Rat heard the Mole clearly and said no just to be mean.»

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: this, Rat · What happens: be, hear, say · To what, where: Mole, no · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★★ 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: 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 Rat heard the Mole clearly and said no just to be mean.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rat	det
3	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mole	det
6	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
7	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	4 heard	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 said	obj
11	just	just	ADV	_	14 mean	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	14 mean	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 mean	cop
14	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	past	the Rat	the Mole	clearly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer mole=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Rat not said here	no		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic
3	is in a quote	to-infinitive	the Rat not said here		mean property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

True: the Rat heard him and simply refused to stop walking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 True	parataxis
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 refused	cc
8	simply	simply	ADV	_	9 refused	advmod
9	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 stop	mark
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 refused	xcomp
12	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the Rat	him = he		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	refuse	past	the Rat not said here		simply property	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	not stop	to-infinitive	the Rat not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	walk	gerund	the Rat not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

False: he was too far ahead to hear the pain in his voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	False	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 hear	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hear	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hear	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 ahead	advmod
7	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	9 hear	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hear	mark
9	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 False	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pain	det
11	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hear	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 voice	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 voice	nmod:poss
14	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			his voice		ahead, hear property	tree rules

Option 3

True: he said no

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	advcl
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic

Option 4

True: he was just mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mean	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mean	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 mean	advmod
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 True	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	he						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

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