Test 10 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the…

Looking back: in chapter II, what did the notice by Toad's creek say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, chapter, creek · What happens: look back, do, say, notice · To what, where: notice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 45 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the hour of Toad, and off with those motor-clothes!)» 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	16 say	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 chapter	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	II	II	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 did	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 did	nsubj
9	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chapter	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 notice	det
11	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 did	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 creek	case
13	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 creek	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Toad	case
15	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 notice	nmod
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	you not said here		in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	do	past	chapter	the notice	by Toad's creek	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	notice		Toad's creek			nom notice «communication transitive»: by=agent

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

«Keep out»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Keep	punct
2	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 Keep	compound:prt
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 Keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep out in a quote	imperative	you not said here						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

«Private. No boats allowed»

Sentence 1: «Private.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Private	punct
2	Private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Private	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: No boats allowed»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 boats	det
2	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 boats	acl
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 allowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	participle		no boats not said here					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

«Private. No landing allowed»

Sentence 1: «Private.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Private	punct
2	Private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Private	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: No landing allowed»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 landing	det
2	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 landing	acl
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 allowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	participle		no landing not said here					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

Option 4

«Private. No landing allowed. Trespassers will be prosecuted»

Sentence 1: «Private.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 Private	punct
2	Private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Private	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: No landing allowed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 landing	det
2	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 allowed	nsubj:pass
3	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 allowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	participle · passive		no landing					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Sentence 3: Trespassers will be prosecuted»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trespassers	trespasser	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 prosecuted	nsubj:pass
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 prosecuted	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 prosecuted	aux:pass
4	prosecuted	prosecute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 prosecuted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prosecute	future · passive		Trespassers					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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