Test 14 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at…

Looking back: in which chapter did the Mole first see a river at all?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Looking · What happens: look back, see · To what, where: river, all · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ 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	11 see	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 chapter	case
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 chapter	det
6	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obl
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mole	det
9	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obj
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 see	advmod
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 river	det
13	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 see	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 see	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	see	past · do-support	Looking	a river		all		first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus

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 right answer

Chapter I, the day he left his spring-cleaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	nsubj
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Chapter	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 left	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obl:unmarked
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 left	nsubj
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cleaning	nmod:poss
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cleaning	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 spring	punct
11	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	chapter		I			tree rules
2	leave	past	Chapter	Chapter's spring cleaning	day	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Theme
3	clean		Chapter			nom cleaning «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Chapter III, when he first met the Badger in the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 met	nsubj
2	III	III	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	1 Chapter	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 met	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 met	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 met	nsubj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 met	advmod
7	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Badger	det
9	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 met	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 wood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 met	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	Chapter	the Badger		the wood		first property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badger=Co-Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Chapter II

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	II	II	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	1 Chapter	flat

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

Option 4

Chapter IV

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	IV	IV	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	1 Chapter	flat

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

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