Test 8 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at…

What do the words «Friend and Helper» tell us about the Piper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: do, tell · To what, where: words, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 do	obj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 words	det
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	obj
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 Friend	punct
6	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 words	appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Helper	cc
8	Helper	Helper	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Friend	conj
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 Friend	punct
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 Piper	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Piper	det
14	Piper	Piper	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	you not said here	the words					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		us			about the Piper	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent we=Recipient about piper=Topic

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He helps lost and hurt little animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 animals	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hurt	cc
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lost	conj
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 helps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	help	present	He	lost little animals	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Beneficiary
2	lose	participle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hurt	participle			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

He is very big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 big	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 big	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					big property	tree rules

Option 3

He sends the animals home to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sends	nsubj
2	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 animals	det
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sends	obj
5	home	home	ADV	_	2 sends	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sleep	mark
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sends	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	present	He	the animals				home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
2	sleep	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He is kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kind	cop
3	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					kind property	tree rules

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