Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Books / The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII,… / t13

Test 13 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at…

Looking back: Portly's father once came through the snow to Badger's house. What did he say people in a fix usually do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: father, people · What happens: look back, come, say, do · To what, where: snow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Looking back: Portly's father once came through the snow to Badger's house.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	Portly	Portly	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 father	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Portly	case
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 came	advmod
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 snow	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snow	det
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 house	case
13	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 house	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Badger	case
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 snow	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	Portly's father not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	come	past	Portly's father			the snow to Badger's house		once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through snow=Initial_Location

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: What did he say people in a fix usually do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 do	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 fix	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fix	det
8	fix	fix	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 people	nmod
9	usually	usually	ADV	_	10 do	advmod
10	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	father						tree rules
2	do	present	people in a fix					usually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Go to Badger, or Badger gets to know of it somehow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 Badger	case
3	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gets	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 gets	cc
6	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 gets	nsubj
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 know	mark
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gets	xcomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 know	obl
12	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	9 know	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here		Badger				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to badger=Initial_Location
2	get	present	Badger						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	know	to-infinitive	Badger not said here					of it; somehow property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Go to Toad, or the police will hear about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 Toad	case
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hear	punct
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 hear	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 police	det
7	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hear	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hear	aux
9	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	conj
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here		Toad				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to toad=Initial_Location
2	hear	future	the police					about it	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus

Option 3

Ask the Otter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Otter	det
3	Otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		the Otter				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent otter=Recipient

Option 4

Go to the Rat, or the Rat gets to know of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 Rat	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gets	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 gets	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Rat	det
8	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 gets	nsubj
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 know	mark
11	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 gets	xcomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 know	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			the Rat			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rat=Initial_Location
2	get	present	the Rat						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	know	to-infinitive	the Rat not said here					of Rat	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/50-willows-ch7-part2-the-piper/t13/