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Test 13 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the…

Megan from Swansea: «Badger's tamping, he's going to thump Toad.» (tamping = furious) Put it right.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Badger, tamping · What happens: go, thump, put · To what, where: Toad, it

This is test 13 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: Megan from Swansea: «Badger's tamping, he's going to thump Toad.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Megan	Megan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Swansea	case
3	Swansea	Swansea	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Megan	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 tamping	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 tamping	punct
6	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tamping	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Badger	case
8	tamping	tamping	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Megan	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 going	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 going	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 going	aux
12	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 tamping	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 thump	mark
14	thump	thump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 going	xcomp
15	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 thump	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tamping	punct
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 tamping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	present · progressive	Badger						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	thump in a quote	to-infinitive	Badger not said here	Toad					vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=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.

Sentence 2: (tamping = furious) Put it right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 tamping	punct
2	tamping	tamping	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Put	nsubj
3	=	=	SYM	_	4 furious	punct
4	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tamping	conj
5	)	)	PUNCT	_	2 tamping	punct
6	Put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Put	obj
8	right	right	ADV	_	6 Put	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	infinitive	tamping	it				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

The options

Option 1

He's going to thump Toad

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 going	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 thump	mark
5	thump	thump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	xcomp
6	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 thump	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	He						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	thump	to-infinitive	He not said here	Toad					vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toad=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He's cross and wants Toad to pay for the car

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 cross	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cross	cop
3	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wants	cc
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cross	conj
6	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wants	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pay	mark
8	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wants	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 car	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 car	det
11	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					cross property	tree rules
2	want	present	He not said here	Toad					tree rules
3	pay not said to happen	to-infinitive	Toad not said here					for the car	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for car=Theme

Option 3

He's furious but will sit and listen to Toad's excuses for once

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 furious	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 furious	cop
3	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 sit	cc
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 sit	aux
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 furious	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 listen	cc
8	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sit	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 excuses	case
10	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 excuses	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Toad	case
12	excuses	excuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 listen	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					furious property	tree rules
2	sit	future	He not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	listen	infinitive	He not said here					to Toad's excuses	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to excuse=Theme
4	excuse		Toad						nom excuse «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He's stern, but he says he doesn't want to be too hard, and will try talking

The tree, 18 words

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 stern	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stern	cop
3	stern	stern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 says	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stern	parataxis
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 want	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 want	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 want	advmod
11	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	15 hard	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 hard	cop
14	too	too	ADV	_	15 hard	advmod
15	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 want	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 try	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 try	cc
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 try	aux
19	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 stern	parataxis
20	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 try	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					stern property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not want	present · do-support	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
4	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					hard property	tree rules
5	try	future							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	talk not said to happen	gerund							vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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