Test 9 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter V, part 2: Dulce Domum (t…

Looking back: when the Mole cried in chapter I, what did the Rat do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mole, I · What happens: look back, cry, do · To what, where: chapter

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cried	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 cried	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mole	det
6	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 chapter	case
9	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 do	obj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Rat	det
15	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 do	nsubj
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	look back	gerund	the Mole not said here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	cry speech: express	past	the Mole	chapter	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chapter=Location
3	do	past · do-support	I		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

He laughed

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 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	He						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He kindly looked in another direction

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	3 looked	nsubj
2	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	3 looked	advmod
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 direction	case
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 direction	det
6	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	He					in another direction; kindly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in direction=Theme

Option 3

He ran off

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 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	He						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He patted him and told him to be brave

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 patted	nsubj
2	patted	pat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 patted	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 patted	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 brave	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 brave	cop
9	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pat	past	He	him = he			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	He not said here		him = he		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here			brave property	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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