Test 12 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the…
Looking back: in chapter II, Toad said his motto in life was what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toad, motto · What happens: look back, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★★★ 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 | 9 said | 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 | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 8 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 motto | nmod:poss |
| 11 | motto | motto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 what | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 motto | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | cop |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 said | parataxis |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | Toad not said here | in chapter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Toad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Toad's motto in life | 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
«Live free!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 3 free | punct |
| 2 | Live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 free | amod |
| 3 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 free | punct |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 free | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
«Live for pleasure!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Live | punct |
| 2 | Live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 pleasure | case |
| 4 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Live | obl |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Live | punct |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Live | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | imperative | you not said here | for pleasure | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
«Live for others!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Live | punct |
| 2 | Live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 others | case |
| 4 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Live | obl |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Live | punct |
| 6 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Live | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | imperative | you not said here | for others | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
«Enjoy yourself!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 2 Enjoy | punct |
| 2 | Enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Enjoy | obj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Enjoy | punct |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Enjoy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy in a quote | imperative | you not said here | yourself | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus |
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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