Test 4 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 2: Toad's Adve…

What does Toad's rude joke about aunts show about him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: aunts, Toad · What happens: do, show, joke · To what, where: rude joke

This is test 4 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 does	nsubj
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 joke	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Toad	case
5	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 joke	amod
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	9 show	mark
8	aunts	aunt	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 show	nsubj
9	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 joke	advcl
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 show	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present		Toad's rude joke		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Eventuality
2	show	present	aunts		about Toad	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about he=Topic
3	joke		Toad			nom joke «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

He looks down on working people, an old snobbish idea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 looks	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 people	case
5	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looks	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 idea	punct
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 idea	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 idea	amod
10	snobbish	snobbish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 idea	amod
11	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 people	compound

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look down	present	He					on working people; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on people=Theme
2	work	gerund							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He looks down on working people, which is an old snobbish idea that the book uses to show his foolishness

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 looks	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 people	case
5	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looks	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 idea	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 idea	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 idea	cop
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 idea	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 idea	amod
12	snobbish	snobbish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 idea	amod
13	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 people	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 uses	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 book	det
16	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 uses	nsubj
17	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 idea	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 show	mark
19	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 uses	xcomp
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 foolishness	nmod:poss
21	foolishness	foolishness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look down	present	He		on working people; down property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on people=Theme
2	work	gerund				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	working people	a old snobbish idea		tree rules
4	use	present	the book			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	show	to-infinitive	the book not said here	book's foolishness		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent foolishness=Recipient

Option 3

He has a low opinion of working people, and it shows how proud he is of his own rank and wealth

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 opinion	det
4	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 opinion	amod
5	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 opinion	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 shows	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 shows	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shows	nsubj
12	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	parataxis
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 proud	advmod
14	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shows	xcomp
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 rank	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 rank	cop
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 rank	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 rank	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 rank	amod
20	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shows	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 wealth	cc
22	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rank	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	He	a low opinion of working people		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient
2	work	gerund				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	show	present	opinion		proud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	he		of his own rank and wealth	tree rules
5	opine			working people		nom opinion «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

He is proud of his noble family and rich relations

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 proud	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 proud	cop
3	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 family	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 family	nmod:poss
6	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 family	amod
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proud	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 relations	cc
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 relations	amod
10	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 family	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					of his noble family and rich relations; proud property	tree rules

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