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

Which is TRUE about this part?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ 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	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 part	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 part	det
6	part	part	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 this part; 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

A swallow stayed and then flew right back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 swallow	det
2	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	nsubj
3	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 flew	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 flew	advmod
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stayed	conj
7	right	right	ADV	_	8 back	advmod
8	back	back	ADV	_	6 flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	a swallow						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly	past	a swallow not said here				then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

All swallows stay put

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 swallows	det
2	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stay	nsubj
3	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	all swallows						tree rules
2	put	participle	all swallows not said here						vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

One swallow stayed all winter and was happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 swallow	nummod
2	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	nsubj
3	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 winter	det
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	obl:unmarked
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 happy	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 happy	cop
8	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stayed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	One swallow				winter		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	One swallow not said here					happy property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

One swallow once tried staying and nearly gave up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 swallow	nummod
2	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tried	nsubj
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 tried	advmod
4	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	staying	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 tried	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
7	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	8 gave	advmod
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tried	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 gave	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	try	past	One swallow	once property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	stay not said to happen	gerund	One swallow not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give up	past	One swallow not said here	nearly property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP 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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