Test 9 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 2: Mr. Toad («I'…
Looking back: in chapter II, what did Toad call boating, once he had his caravan?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Toad · What happens: look back, call, have · To what, where: chapter, caravan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 chapter | csubj |
| 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 | root | root |
| 6 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 5 chapter | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 call | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 call | obj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 call | aux |
| 10 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 call | nsubj |
| 11 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 chapter | parataxis |
| 12 | boating | boating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 call | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
| 14 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 call | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 caravan | nmod:poss |
| 18 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 chapter | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | call | past · do-support | Toad | chapter | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme boating=Result | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Toad | Toad's caravan | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caravan=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Silly boyish amusement for children and little boys only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 amusement | amod |
| 2 | boyish | boyish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 amusement | amod |
| 3 | amusement | amusement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 children | case |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 amusement | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 boys | cc |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 boys | amod |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 children | conj |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 boys | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Tiresome boyish nonsense
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiresome | tiresome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nonsense | amod |
| 2 | boyish | boyish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nonsense | amod |
| 3 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Boring boyish games
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 games | amod |
| 2 | boyish | boyish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 games | amod |
| 3 | games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
«Silly boyish amusement»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 amusement | punct |
| 2 | Silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 amusement | amod |
| 3 | boyish | boyish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 amusement | amod |
| 4 | amusement | amusement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 amusement | punct |
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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