Test 14 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adve…
★★★ The washing goes out on Monday morning and comes back on Friday evening. Not counting Monday and Friday, for how many whole days is it away?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, counting · What happens: go out, come back, not count, be away · To what, where: washing
This is test 14 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: ★★★ The washing goes out on Monday morning and comes back on Friday evening.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ★ | ★ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | ★ | ★ | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 ★ | dep |
| 3 | ★ | ★ | ADP | _ | 5 washing | case |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 washing | det |
| 5 | washing | washing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 ★ | nmod |
| 6 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 goes | compound:prt |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 morning | case |
| 9 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 morning | compound |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 goes | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 comes | cc |
| 12 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 goes | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 comes | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 evening | case |
| 15 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 evening | compound |
| 16 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 comes | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | present | ★ ★ the washing | morning | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come back | present | ★ ★ the washing not said here | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Not counting Monday and Friday, for how many whole days is it away?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 counting | advmod |
| 2 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 is | csubj |
| 3 | Monday | Monday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 counting | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Friday | cc |
| 5 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Monday | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 days | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 days | case |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 many | advmod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 days | amod |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 days | amod |
| 11 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 counting | obl |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 is | expl |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 is | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not count | gerund | day; monday | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be away | present | counting | washing | away property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Four whole days and nights, counting Thursday night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nights | cc |
| 5 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 days | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 counting | punct |
| 7 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 days | acl |
| 8 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 night | compound |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 counting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | gerund | Four whole days and nights not said here | night | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Three
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Five
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 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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