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

Which is TRUE about the driver?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 55 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adventures (the chase, the tunnel and the night wood)» 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	about	about	ADP	_	6 driver	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 driver	det
6	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 TRUE	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about the driver; 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

He is a warder

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	4 warder	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 warder	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 warder	det
4	warder	warder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a warder					tree rules

Option 2

He is a policeman who loves motor-cars

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	4 policeman	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 policeman	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 policeman	det
4	policeman	policeman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 loves	nsubj
6	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 policeman	acl:relcl
7	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cars	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 motor	punct
9	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 loves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a policeman					tree rules
2	love	present	a policeman	motor cars					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus

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

He thinks Toad was wicked, yet helps him

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 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wicked	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wicked	cop
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thinks	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 helps	punct
7	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	8 helps	cc
8	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thinks	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 helps	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	He			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Toad		wicked property	tree rules
3	help	present	He not said here	Toad		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

Option 4

He loves motor-cars and drives fast

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 loves	nsubj
2	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cars	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 motor	punct
5	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 loves	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 drives	cc
7	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 loves	conj
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 drives	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	He	motor cars					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus
2	drive	present	He not said here					fast property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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