Test 17 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adve…

★★★ Careful: who says «You let me have the managing of him», and to whom?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, me · What happens: say, let, have · To what, where: me, managing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Careful	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	4 Careful	case
4	Careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Careful	parataxis
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
9	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 let	nsubj
10	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 managing	det
14	managing	managing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 managing	nmod
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 whom	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 whom	cc
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 whom	case
21	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 Careful	advcl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Careful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	present	You	me	tree rules
3	have in a quote	infinitive	me not said here	the managing of ★	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent managing=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.

The options

Option 1

The gaoler, to the magistrate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gaoler	det
2	gaoler	gaoler	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 magistrate	punct
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 magistrate	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 magistrate	det
6	magistrate	magistrate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gaoler	appos

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The daughter, to her father

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 daughter	det
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 father	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 daughter	conj

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

Option 3

The gaoler, to his daughter in the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gaoler	det
2	gaoler	gaoler	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 daughter	punct
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 daughter	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughter	nmod:poss
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gaoler	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hall	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hall	det
9	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	nmod

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

Option 4

The gaoler, to his daughter, after she had offered to look after the prisoner

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gaoler	det
2	gaoler	gaoler	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 daughter	punct
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 daughter	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughter	nmod:poss
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gaoler	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 offered	punct
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 offered	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 offered	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 offered	aux
11	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gaoler	acl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 offered	xcomp
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 prisoner	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 prisoner	det
16	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past · perfect · passive	the gaoler and his daughter not said here	she					tree rules
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	the gaoler and his daughter not said here				after the prisoner		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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