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Test 15 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 1: Mr. Toad (the…

★★★ «Whose hour, you should rather say.» Why does the Badger correct «What hour»?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: say, do · To what, where: Badger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★★★ 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: ★★★ «Whose hour, you should rather say.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 say	vocative
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 hour	punct
5	Whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 hour	nmod:poss
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ★	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 say	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
10	rather	rather	ADV	_	11 say	advmod
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	should	you					★ vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: Why does the Badger correct «What hour»?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	conj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Badger	det
4	Badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hour	amod
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 hour	punct
7	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Badger	appos
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 hour	punct
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the Badger					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badger=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

He means the hour when Toad will be ruined

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hour	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 ruined	advmod
6	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ruined	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 ruined	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 ruined	aux:pass
9	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	He				hour		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ruin	future · passive		Toad					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

He wants a clock

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 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 clock	det
4	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	He	a clock					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot clock=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He means an hour belonging to Toad, not an hour on the clock

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 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hour	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
5	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hour	acl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Toad	case
7	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 belonging	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hour	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 hour	advmod
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hour	det
11	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Toad	appos
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 clock	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 clock	det
14	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	He				hour		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	belong	gerund	a hour not said here		Toad				vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He is correcting the Rat's grammar about clocks

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 correcting	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 correcting	aux
3	correcting	correct	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Rat	det
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 grammar	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Rat	case
7	grammar	grammar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 correcting	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 clocks	case
9	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 correcting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	correct speech: disagree	present · progressive	He	the Rat's grammar				about clocks	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent grammar=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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