Test 15 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the…
★★★ Careful with the Clerk's sum: suppose Toad went into the dungeon aged 30 and served the whole sentence the Chairman gave. How old would he be when let out?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, Toad, Chairman, Clerk · What happens: ★, suppose, go, serve, give, sum · To what, where: dungeon, whole sentence · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 15 · ★★★ of lesson 48 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» 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: ★★★ Careful with the Clerk's sum: suppose Toad went into the dungeon aged 30 and served the whole sentence the Chairman gave.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ★ | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ★ | xcomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 sum | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Clerk | det |
| 7 | Clerk | Clerk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sum | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Clerk | case |
| 9 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Careful | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 suppose | punct |
| 11 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 ★ | parataxis |
| 12 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 suppose | ccomp |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 dungeon | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dungeon | det |
| 16 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 17 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 went | advcl |
| 18 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 aged | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 served | cc |
| 20 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sentence | det |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sentence | amod |
| 23 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 served | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Chairman | det |
| 25 | Chairman | Chairman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 gave | nsubj |
| 26 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 sentence | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ★ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | present | ★ | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suppose | infinitive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | go | past | Toad | the dungeon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into dungeon=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | serve | past | Toad not said here | the whole sentence | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | give | past | the Chairman | the whole sentence not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sum | the Clerk | nom sum «possession transitive»: poss=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: How old would he be when let out?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 old | advmod |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 let | advcl |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 let | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | cop |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 let | advmod |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 let | compound:prt |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | Chairman | let property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
5
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
20
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
50
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
1
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 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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