Test 11 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adve…

Looking back: who said in chapter VI that talking would never cure Toad, because «He'll say anything»?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Toad · What happens: look back, say, talk, not cure · To what, where: chapter, Toad, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 chapter	case
7	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
8	VI	VI	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	7 chapter	flat
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 cure	mark
10	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 cure	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 cure	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 cure	advmod
13	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
14	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cure	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 say	mark
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
18	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 say	nsubj
19	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 say	aux
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cure	conj
21	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 say	obj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 cure	punct
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	look back	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past			chapter	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	talk	gerund				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not cure	would		Toad		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer toad=Source
5	say speech: assert in a quote	future	Toad	anything		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=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

The Water Rat, when he sat talking in the river-bank parlour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rat	det
2	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Rat	compound
3	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 sat	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 sat	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sat	nsubj
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 sat	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	14 parlour	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 parlour	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bank	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 river	punct
13	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 parlour	compound
14	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the Water Rat						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	talk	gerund	the Water Rat not said here			the bank parlour			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Badger, the wise and sensible old friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wise	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wise	det
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Badger	parataxis
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 friend	cc
6	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 friend	amod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 friend	amod
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wise	conj

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

Option 3

Badger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The Rat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Rat	det
2	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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.

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