Test 10 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All…

Looking back: in chapter V, what called the Mole, and where did it pull him?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: chapter V, Mole · What happens: look back, call, pull · To what, where: Mole, him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 57 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All (the swallows and the call of the South)» 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	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 pull	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 V	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 V	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 V	compound
6	V	v	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 called	nsubj
9	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 V	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Mole	det
11	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pull	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pull	cc
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 pull	advmod
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 pull	aux
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pull	nsubj
17	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pull	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 pull	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund			in chapter V	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in v=Theme
2	call	past	chapter V	the Mole		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mole=Recipient
3	pull	past · do-support	Mole	him = he		vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result

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 spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 spring	det
2	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

His old home, pulling him back to it through the sunny spring air and the dusty road

The tree, 17 words

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	3 home	nmod:poss
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 home	amod
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulling	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pulling	punct
5	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pulling	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 pulling	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pulling	obl
10	through	through	ADP	_	14 air	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 air	det
12	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 air	amod
13	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 air	compound
14	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulling	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 road	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 road	det
17	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 road	amod
18	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 air	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull back	gerund	His old home	him = he	it	the sunny spring air and the dusty road			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to it=Destination

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

His old home, pulling him back to it

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	3 home	nmod:poss
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 home	amod
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pulling	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pulling	punct
5	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pulling	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 pulling	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pulling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull back	gerund	His old home	him = he		it			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to it=Destination

Option 4

A smell of home pulling him back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 smell	det
2	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 home	case
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smell	nmod
5	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 smell	acl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pulling	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 pulling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull back	gerund	a smell of home not said here	him = he					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result
2	smell		home						nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=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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