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Test 5 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 1: Toad's Adve…

Why does the girl say «Bless the animal ... I don't want to take it»?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, I · What happens: say, bless, not want, take · To what, where: animal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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: Why does the girl say «Bless the animal ...

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 Bless	punct
7	Bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 animal	det
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Bless	obj
10	...	...	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the girl						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	bless in a quote	infinitive	the girl not said here	the animal					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme

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: I don't want to take it»?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	present · do-support	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	animal					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

The options

Option 1

She is angry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 angry	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					angry property	tree rules

Option 2

She wants more food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 food	amod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	She	more food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She thinks Toad is talking rubbish about the castle here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 talking	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 talking	aux
5	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thinks	ccomp
6	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talking	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 castle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 castle	det
9	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rubbish	nmod
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 talking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	She						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	talk	present · progressive	Toad	rubbish		here		about the castle	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Toad talks like a house-seller, though nobody is buying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 talks	nsubj
2	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	7 seller	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 seller	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seller	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 house	punct
7	seller	seller	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talks	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 buying	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 buying	mark
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 buying	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 buying	aux
12	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 talks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	Toad					like a house seller	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	buy	present · progressive	nobody						vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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