Test 1 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adve…

«Toad's just chillin' in prison, eating loads from day one.» Put it right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chillin, you · What happens: eat, put · To what, where: loads, chillin

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 52 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adventures (the gaoler's daughter and the buttered toast)» 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: «Toad's just chillin' in prison, eating loads from day one.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 chillin	punct
2	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 chillin	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Toad	case
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 chillin	advmod
5	chillin	chillin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 chillin	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 prison	case
8	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chillin	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eating	punct
10	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 chillin	acl
11	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eating	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 day	case
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eating	obl
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 day	flat
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 chillin	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 chillin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	gerund	Toad's chillin in prison not said here	loads			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient

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: Put it right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	chillin				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

For weeks he refused every single meal and wept all the day long in the cell

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	2 weeks	case
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 refused	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 refused	nsubj
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 meal	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 meal	amod
7	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 refused	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wept	cc
9	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 refused	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wept	obl:unmarked
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 wept	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 cell	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cell	det
16	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	he	every single meal			week		vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Theme
2	weep	past	he not said here				day	in the cell; long property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cell=Theme

Option 2

He stayed cheerful and ate every meal

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 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stayed	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ate	cc
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stayed	conj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 meal	det
7	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	He					cheerful property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	past	He not said here	every meal					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

For weeks he refused his meals and wept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	2 weeks	case
2	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 refused	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 refused	nsubj
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 meals	nmod:poss
6	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 refused	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wept	cc
8	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 refused	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	he	his meals			week		vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Theme
2	weep	past	he not said here						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He ate all his food and was happy

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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 food	det:predet
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 food	nmod:poss
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 happy	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 happy	cop
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	He	his food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
2	is	past	He not said here					happy property	tree rules

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