Test 4 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 3: Toad's Adve…

Which is TRUE?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 TRUE	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 TRUE	cop
3	TRUE	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

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

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

Toad tells the engine-driver a made-up story about children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 driver	det
4	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 driver	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 engine	punct
6	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 story	det
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 story	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 up	punct
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 made	compound:prt
11	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 children	case
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 story	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	Toad	a made story	the engine driver			about children	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent driver=Recipient story=Topic
2	make up	participle							vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Toad gives the driver a gold coin first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 driver	det
4	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 coin	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coin	compound
7	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 gives	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	Toad	a gold coin	the driver			first property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent driver=Recipient coin=Theme

Option 3

Toad rides for free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rides	nsubj
2	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 free	case
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 rides	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	present	Toad					for free	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The driver refuses Toad any ride at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 driver	det
2	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 refuses	nsubj
3	refuses	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 refuses	obj
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 ride	det
6	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 refuses	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 refuses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	present	the driver	Toad		all			tree rules

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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