Test 13 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All…
Looking back: at Mole End in chapter V, the Mole felt glad to have a home to come back to. What is the Rat's «home» that never moves?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mole, home · What happens: look back, feel, have, come back, be, not move · To what, where: home
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 56 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 1: Wayfarers All (change in the air)» 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: Looking back: at Mole End in chapter V, the Mole felt glad to have a home to come back to.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 felt | advcl |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 End | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 End | case |
| 5 | Mole | Mole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 End | compound |
| 6 | End | End | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 V | case |
| 8 | chapter | chapter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 V | compound |
| 9 | V | v | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Mole | det |
| 12 | Mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 felt | nsubj |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 felt | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 glad | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 home | det |
| 18 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 come | mark |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 have | xcomp |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 back | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 felt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | gerund | the Mole not said here | at Mole End | in chapter V | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at end=Theme | |||
| 2 | feel | past | the Mole | glad property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | the Mole not said here | a home | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come back | to-infinitive | a home not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Rat's «home» that never moves?
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 Rat | det |
| 4 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 home | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Rat | case |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 home | punct |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 8 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 7 home | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 moves | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 moves | advmod |
| 11 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 home | acl:relcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Rat's home | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not move | present | the Rat's home | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
His river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 river | nmod:poss |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The little caravan that Toad keeps parked by the road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 caravan | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 caravan | amod |
| 3 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 parked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | that | that | ADP | _ | 5 Toad | case |
| 5 | Toad | Toad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 caravan | nmod |
| 6 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 parked | aux:pass |
| 7 | parked | park | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 road | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 parked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | park | present · passive | the road | the little caravan that Toad | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
Option 3
The wide Wide World beyond the wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 World | det |
| 2 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 World | amod |
| 3 | Wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 World | amod |
| 4 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 7 wood | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 World | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wood | det |
| 2 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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