Test 8 · ★★★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the…
So Toad did keep one promise. Which?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Toad · What happens: keep · To what, where: one promise
This is test 8 · ★★★ 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: So Toad did keep one promise.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 keep | advmod |
| 2 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 promise | nummod |
| 6 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · do-support | Toad | one promise | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |
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: Which?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Which | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
His promise to jump into the first car he saw
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 promise | nmod:poss |
| 2 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jump | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 jump | mark |
| 4 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 car | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 car | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 car | amod |
| 8 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jump | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 car | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | to-infinitive | His promise | the first car | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into car=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | past | promise | the first car not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | promise | His = he | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
His promise to never buy another motor-car
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 promise | nmod:poss |
| 2 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 buy | mark |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 buy | advmod |
| 5 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promise | acl |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 car | det |
| 7 | motor | motor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 car | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 motor | punct |
| 9 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 buy | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not buy | to-infinitive | another motor car | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme | |||||
| 2 | promise | His = he | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
His promise to give up motoring and the Rat's company for good and always
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 promise | nmod:poss |
| 2 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 give | mark |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promise | acl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 give | compound:prt |
| 6 | motoring | motoring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 company | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Rat | det |
| 9 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 company | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Rat | case |
| 11 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 promise | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 good | case |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 company | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 always | cc |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 good | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | to-infinitive | motoring | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motoring=Source | |||||
| 2 | promise | His = he | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
His promise to jump into the first car he saw and drive it all the way back home
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 promise | nmod:poss |
| 2 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jump | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 jump | mark |
| 4 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 car | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 car | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 car | amod |
| 8 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jump | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 car | acl:relcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drive | cc |
| 12 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 jump | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drive | obj |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 way | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drive | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 drive | advmod |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 drive | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | to-infinitive | His promise | the first car | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into car=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | past | promise | the first car not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | drive | infinitive | His promise not said here | car | all way obl:unmarked; home property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | promise | His = he | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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