Test 7 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'…
Looking back: in chapter IV, the Badger «never said, “I told you so”». Who says «Told you so» now?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Badger, I · What happens: look back, not say, tell, say · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 7 · ★★★ of lesson 46 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'm not sorry!» and the Toad locked in his bedroom)» 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: Looking back: in chapter IV, the Badger «never said, “I told you so”».
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 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 | IV | IV | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 5 chapter | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Badger | det |
| 9 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 said | advmod |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 told | nsubj |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 told | advmod |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 20 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | the Badger not said here | in chapter | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Badger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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: Who says «Told you so» now?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 Told | punct |
| 4 | Told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 Told | iobj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 Told | advmod |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 Told | punct |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 Told | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | you | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
The options
Option 1
The Rat, who says it to Mole on the way home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 says | nsubj |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 says | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Mole | case |
| 8 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 says | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 way | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | obl |
| 12 | home | home | ADV | _ | 11 way | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Rat | it | Mole | the way | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to mole=Recipient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The Rat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rat | det |
| 2 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Mole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mole | det |
| 2 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The Badger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Badger | det |
| 2 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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