Test 10 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at…

Looking back: who first told the Mole that nothing is «half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats»?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nothing, Mole · What happens: look back, tell, be, do, mess · To what, where: Mole, half · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 50 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (the music and the island)» 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	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 told	nsubj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 told	advmod
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Looking	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Mole	det
8	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 half	mark
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	13 half	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 half	cop
12	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 half	punct
13	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 Mole	acl
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADV	_	16 worth	advmod
16	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 told	ccomp
17	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 worth	xcomp
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 messing	mark
19	simply	simply	ADV	_	20 messing	advmod
20	messing	mess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 doing	advcl
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 boats	case
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 boats	case
23	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 messing	obl
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past		the Mole	first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mole=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	present	nothing	half		tree rules
4	do in a quote	gerund	the Mole not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	mess in a quote	gerund	the Mole not said here		about boats; simply property	tree rules

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

The Badger, at dinner

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
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dinner	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dinner	case
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Badger	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Rat, on the Mole's first day by the river

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
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 day	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	9 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mole	det
6	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 day	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Mole	case
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Rat	appos
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 day	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The Rat, on a warm evening at the weir

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
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 evening	punct
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 evening	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 evening	det
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 evening	amod
7	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Rat	appos
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 weir	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 weir	det
10	weir	weir	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 evening	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Toad, on the Mole's first visit to the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 visit	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	8 visit	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mole	det
5	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 visit	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Mole	case
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 visit	amod
8	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Toad	appos
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 visit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit		the Mole					to the river	nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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