Test 13 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adve…
Looking back: who said at the end of chapter VI that Toad might be brought back «between two policemen»?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: look back, say, bring back · To what, where: end, Toad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 chapter | case |
| 10 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | nmod |
| 11 | VI | VI | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 10 chapter | flat |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 brought | mark |
| 13 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 brought | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 brought | aux:pass |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | ccomp |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 brought | advmod |
| 18 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 21 policemen | punct |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 policemen | case |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 policemen | nummod |
| 21 | policemen | policeman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 21 policemen | punct |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | 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 | say speech: assert | past | at the end of chapter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring back | might · passive | Toad | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
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
Otter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Ratty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ratty | Ratty | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
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
Toad himself, speaking sadly to the Mole in the dark cellar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Toad | nmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 speaking | punct |
| 4 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Toad | acl |
| 5 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 4 speaking | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Mole | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Mole | det |
| 8 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speaking | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 cellar | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cellar | det |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cellar | amod |
| 12 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 speaking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | gerund | Toad Toad not said here | the dark cellar | to the Mole; sadly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to mole=Co-Agent |
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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