Test 14 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adve…

★★★ Careful: who says «Hullo, mother!», and to whom?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 54 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adventures (no money, no pocket, and the engine-driver)» 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	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Careful	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	ADP	_	4 Careful	case
4	Careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Careful	parataxis
8	«	«	PUNCT	_	9 Hullo	punct
9	Hullo	hullo	INTJ	_	7 says	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mother	punct
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Hullo	appos
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 Hullo	punct
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 Hullo	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 whom	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 whom	cc
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 whom	case
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 says	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Careful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to whom=Recipient

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 guard, to the Mole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 guard	det
2	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Mole	punct
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Mole	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mole	det
6	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guard	conj

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

Option 2

The Rat, to the driver

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
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 driver	punct
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 driver	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 driver	det
6	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Rat	appos

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The engine-driver, to Toad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 driver	det
2	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 driver	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 engine	punct
4	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Toad	punct
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Toad	case
7	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 driver	appos

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

Option 4

Toad, to the engine-driver, shouting from the carriage window as he climbed up the step

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 driver	punct
3	to	to	ADP	_	7 driver	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 driver	det
5	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 driver	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 engine	punct
7	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Toad	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shouting	punct
9	shouting	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 driver	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 window	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 window	det
12	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 window	compound
13	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shouting	obl
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 climbed	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 climbed	nsubj
16	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shouting	advcl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 climbed	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 step	det
19	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 climbed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund				the carriage window			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	climb up	past	driver	the step					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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