Test 5 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 1: Dulce Domum (t…

Why does the bird in the cage make them feel the «sense of home» most of all?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: them · What happens: do, make, feel, sense · To what, where: bird, cage, them, sense, home

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 does	advmod
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 make	conj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cage	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cage	det
7	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obl
8	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 make	obj
10	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 make	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sense	det
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 sense	punct
13	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feel	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 home	case
15	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sense	nmod
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 feel	punct
17	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 feel	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 most	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	present		the bird	the cage	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Eventuality
2	make	present		them = they		tree rules
3	feel	infinitive	them = they not said here	the sense of home		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent sense=Theme most=Eventuality
4	sense in a quote			home		nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

It is a cosy little world hidden away from the wind and frost outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 world	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 world	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 world	det
4	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 world	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 world	amod
6	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 world	acl
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 hidden	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 wind	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wind	det
11	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hidden	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 frost	cc
13	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wind	conj
14	outside	outside	ADV	_	13 frost	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a cosy little world					tree rules
2	hide away	participle		a cosy little world not said here		the wind and frost		away property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from wind=Beneficiary

Option 2

It shows a warm homely scene that they have lost to the winter storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 scene	det
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 scene	amod
5	homely	homely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 scene	amod
6	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 lost	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lost	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lost	aux
10	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 scene	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 storm	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 storm	det
13	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 storm	compound
14	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It	a warm homely scene					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent scene=Recipient
2	lose	present · perfect	they	a warm homely scene not said here				to the winter storm	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is a tiny, safe, warm world shut away from the cold outside

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 world	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 world	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 world	det
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 world	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tiny	punct
6	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 world	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 safe	punct
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 world	amod
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 world	acl
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 shut	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 cold	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cold	det
14	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shut	obl
15	outside	outside	ADV	_	10 shut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a tiny safe warm world					tree rules
2	shut away	participle		a tiny safe warm world not said here		the cold		away, outside property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It is small and safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 small	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 small	cop
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 safe	cc
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 small	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					small property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

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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