Test 3 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All…

Ruby from Adelaide: «that arvo the swallows told Ratty they hate England.» (arvo = afternoon) Put it right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ruby, arvo, you · What happens: tell, hate, put · To what, where: Ratty, England, arvo · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Ruby from Adelaide: «that arvo the swallows told Ratty they hate England.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Adelaide	case
3	Adelaide	Adelaide	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ruby	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 arvo	det
7	arvo	arvo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 swallows	det
9	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 arvo	conj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Ratty	Ratty	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 told	iobj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hate	nsubj
13	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 told	ccomp
14	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 hate	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	Ruby from Adelaide		Ratty				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ratty=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hate in a quote	present	arvo	England					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer england=Stimulus

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: (arvo = afternoon) Put it right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 Put	punct
2	arvo	arvo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Put	obl:unmarked
3	=	=	SYM	_	4 afternoon	punct
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arvo	appos
5	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 afternoon	punct
6	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 Put	obj
8	right	right	ADV	_	6 Put	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	arvo				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They love it too, and come home to it in its season

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 love	nsubj
2	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 love	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	2 love	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 come	cc
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 love	parataxis
8	home	home	ADV	_	7 come	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 come	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 season	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 season	nmod:poss
13	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	They	it					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	come	infinitive				it	season	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location

Option 2

They hate the fog but love its summers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hate	nsubj
2	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fog	det
4	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hate	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 love	cc
6	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hate	conj
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 summers	nmod:poss
8	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 love	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	They	the fog					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fog=Stimulus
2	love	present	They not said here				summer		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

They hate England, but they still come home to it because it is their nest and the sea is cold

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hate	nsubj
2	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hate	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 come	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 come	cc
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	nsubj
7	still	still	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
8	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hate	conj
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 come	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 come	obl
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 nest	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 nest	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 nest	cop
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 nest	nmod:poss
16	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hate	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cold	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cold	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 cold	cop
21	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	They	England				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer england=Stimulus
2	come	present	they		it	still	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location
3	is a	present	it	their nest				tree rules
4	is	present	the sea				cold property	tree rules

Option 4

They dislike the cold, so they flee each year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dislike	nsubj
2	dislike	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cold	det
4	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dislike	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 flee	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 flee	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 flee	nsubj
8	flee	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dislike	conj
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flee	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dislike	present	They	the cold					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cold=Stimulus
2	flee	present	they				year		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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