Test 12 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adve…

Looking back: who said in chapter VI, «It's for your own good, Toady, you know» as Toad was hauled upstairs?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: chapter, you · What happens: look back, say, be, know, haul · To what, where: chapter, Toad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 53 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adventures (the washerwoman's dress)» 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	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Looking	conj
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	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 good	punct
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 good	punct
11	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 good	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 good	cop
13	for	for	ADP	_	16 good	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 good	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 good	amod
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Toady	punct
18	Toady	Toady	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 good	vocative
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
21	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Looking	parataxis
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 hauled	mark
24	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 hauled	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 hauled	aux:pass
26	hauled	haul	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 know	ccomp
27	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	26 hauled	advmod
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past			chapter		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in chapter=Manner
3	is in a quote	present	chapter			Toady vocative; good property	tree rules
4	know in a quote	present	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	haul	past · passive		Toad		upstairs property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

The options

Option 1

The gaoler

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ 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.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The Badger, who had warned Toad about this very thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Badger	det
2	Badger	Badger	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 warned	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 warned	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 warned	aux
6	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Badger	parataxis
7	Toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 warned	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 thing	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 thing	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 thing	advmod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 warned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past · perfect	the Badger		Toad			about this thing	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent toad=Recipient about thing=Topic

Option 4

The Badger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Badger	det
2	Badger	Badger	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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