Test 3 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VIII, part 4: Toad's Adve…
«I only borrowed a motorcar.» What is the truth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, truth · What happens: borrow, be · To what, where: motorcar
This is test 3 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: «I only borrowed a motorcar.»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 borrowed | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 borrowed | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 borrowed | advmod |
| 4 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 motorcar | det |
| 6 | motorcar | motorcar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 borrowed | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 borrowed | punct |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 borrowed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow in a quote | past | I | a motorcar | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motorcar=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: What is the truth?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the truth | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
He borrowed it and returned it the next day
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 borrowed | nsubj |
| 2 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 borrowed | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 returned | cc |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 borrowed | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 returned | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 day | amod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | past | He | it | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | past | He not said here | it | day | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2
It was a joke
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 joke | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 joke | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 joke | det |
| 4 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | a joke | tree rules |
Option 3
He hired it, and paid the owners later on
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 hired | nsubj |
| 2 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hired | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 paid | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 paid | cc |
| 6 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hired | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 owners | det |
| 8 | owners | owner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 paid | obj |
| 9 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 paid | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 paid | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hire | past | He | it | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pay on | past | He not said here | the owners | late property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owner=Asset |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
He stole it: he took it without asking and was found guilty
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 stole | nsubj |
| 2 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stole | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stole | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 asking | mark |
| 9 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 took | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 found | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | aux:pass |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stole | conj |
| 13 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 found | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | He | it | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | he | it | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | he not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | find | past · passive | He not said here | guilty property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF» |
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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