Test 4 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adve…

Which is TRUE about this part?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 TRUE	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 part	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 part	det
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 TRUE	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about this part; true property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Toad is in a cell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cell	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cell	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cell	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cell	det
5	cell	cell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Toad			a cell			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Toad describes Toad Hall as if he were selling it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 describes	nsubj
2	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Hall	compound
4	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 describes	obj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 selling	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 selling	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 selling	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 selling	aux
9	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 describes	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 selling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	Toad	Toad Hall					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hall=Theme
2	sell	past · progressive	Toad	it					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Toad hates his house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hates	nsubj
2	hates	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 house	nmod:poss
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hates	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	Toad	Toad's house					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus

Option 4

Toad says he never liked his house at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 liked	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 liked	advmod
5	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 house	nmod:poss
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 liked	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 liked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Toad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not like	past	Toad	Toad's house		all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot house=Theme

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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