Test 9 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VII, part 2: The Piper at…
Ollie from Sydney: «Mole was rowin', yeah nah, it was Ratty rowin'.» (yeah nah = no) Which of his two words was right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: rowin, two words, Sydney · What happens: be, word · To what, where: Mole rowin, Ratty rowin
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Ollie from Sydney: «Mole was rowin', yeah nah, it was Ratty rowin'.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ollie | Ollie | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 Sydney | case |
| 3 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ollie | nmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 rowin | punct |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 8 rowin | punct |
| 6 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rowin | compound |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rowin | cop |
| 8 | rowin | rowin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ollie | appos |
| 9 | ', | ', | PUNCT | _ | 8 rowin | punct |
| 10 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 rowin | discourse |
| 11 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 16 rowin | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nah | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 rowin | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rowin | cop |
| 15 | Ratty | Ratty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 rowin | compound |
| 16 | rowin | rowin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ollie | appos |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 rowin | punct |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 rowin | punct |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 rowin | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Mole rowin | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | past | rowin | Ratty rowin | 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.
Sentence 2: (yeah nah = no) Which of his two words was right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 nah | punct |
| 2 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 nah | discourse |
| 3 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 = | discourse |
| 4 | = | = | SYM | _ | 13 right | punct |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 words | det |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 no | punct |
| 7 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 words | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 words | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 words | nmod:poss |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 words | nummod |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 right | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 right | cop |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sydney's two words | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | word | Sydney | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The first: the Mole was rowing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 rowing | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mole | det |
| 5 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rowing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rowing | aux |
| 7 | rowing | row | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 first | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row | past · progressive | the Mole | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
The second: Ratty was rowing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 second | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 Ratty | amod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 second | punct |
| 4 | Ratty | Ratty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rowing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rowing | aux |
| 6 | rowing | row | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row | past · progressive | second Ratty | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
The first, but Ratty rowed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 rowed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rowed | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 rowed | cc |
| 5 | Ratty | Ratty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rowed | nsubj |
| 6 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row | past | the first | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The second, because Ratty was rowing the boat while the Mole sat in the stern, dozing
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 second | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rowing | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 rowing | mark |
| 5 | Ratty | Ratty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rowing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rowing | aux |
| 7 | rowing | row | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 second | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boat | det |
| 9 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rowing | obj |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 sat | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Mole | det |
| 12 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sat | nsubj |
| 13 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rowing | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 stern | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stern | det |
| 16 | stern | stern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sat | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dozing | punct |
| 18 | dozing | dozing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stern | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row | past · progressive | Ratty | the boat | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent boat=Location | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | the Mole | the stern and dozing | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stern=Location |
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