Test 15 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (t…
★★★ «Too late, too dark, too far off, and the snow's coming!» How many «too»s does the Mole use in this cry?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snow, many · What happens: come, do · To what, where: Mole use, cry
This is test 15 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (the Mole's sobs, the Rat turns back, and Mole End)» 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: ★★★ «Too late, too dark, too far off, and the snow's coming!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 late | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 late | nsubj |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 6 late | punct |
| 5 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 6 late | advmod |
| 6 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dark | punct |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 dark | advmod |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 late | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 off | punct |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 off | advmod |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 off | advmod |
| 13 | off | off | ADV | _ | 6 late | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 coming | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 coming | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 snow | det |
| 17 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coming | nsubj |
| 18 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 coming | aux |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 off | conj |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 late | punct |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 6 late | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · progressive | the snow | vn escape-51.1-1 «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.
Sentence 2: How many «too»s does the Mole use in this cry?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 does | nsubj |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 too | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 many | advmod |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 too | punct |
| 6 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 does | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 use | det |
| 9 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 use | compound |
| 10 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 does | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 cry | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 cry | det |
| 13 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 does | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | many | the Mole use | this cry | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Four of them, in all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Four | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Four | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Four | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
1
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Five, counting the snow's too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 counting | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 counting | punct |
| 3 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 snow | det |
| 5 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 counting | obj |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 snow | case |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 counting | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | Five | the snow | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
3
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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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