Test 6 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 2: Wayfarers All…

Aroha from Auckland: «chur, so the Downs are just some hills, nothing special to the Rat.» (chur = thanks, cool) Put it right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Downs, chur · What happens: be, put · To what, where: hills, thanks

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Aroha from Auckland: «chur, so the Downs are just some hills, nothing special to the Rat.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Aroha	Aroha	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Auckland	case
3	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Aroha	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 chur	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 chur	punct
6	chur	chur	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Aroha	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hills	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	14 hills	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Downs	det
10	Downs	Down	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 hills	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 hills	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 hills	advmod
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 hills	det
14	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chur	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 nothing	punct
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 chur	appos
17	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 nothing	amod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 Rat	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Rat	det
20	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 special	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 nothing	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 chur	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the Downs	some hills					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.

Sentence 2: (chur = thanks, cool) Put it right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	2 chur	punct
2	chur	chur	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Put	nsubj
3	=	=	SYM	_	4 thanks	punct
4	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chur	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cool	punct
6	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thanks	amod
7	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 thanks	punct
8	Put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Put	obj
10	right	right	ADV	_	8 Put	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	infinitive	chur	thanks				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They were always his limit, the edge of his world, where the swallows were born each spring

The tree, 17 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	5 limit	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 limit	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 limit	advmod
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 limit	nmod:poss
5	limit	limit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 edge	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 edge	det
8	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 limit	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 world	nmod:poss
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 edge	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 born	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 born	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 swallows	det
15	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 born	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 born	aux:pass
17	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 limit	conj
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 spring	det
19	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 born	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	his limit				always property	tree rules
2	bear	past · passive		the swallows			spring		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

They marked his known world's far boundary

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 marked	nsubj
2	marked	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 world	nmod:poss
4	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 world	amod
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boundary	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 world	case
7	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 boundary	amod
8	boundary	boundary	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 marked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	past	They	his known world's far boundary					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent boundary=Destination
2	know	participle							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They were always his limit, the edge of his world

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	5 limit	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 limit	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 limit	advmod
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 limit	nmod:poss
5	limit	limit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 edge	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 edge	det
8	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 limit	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 world	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 world	nmod:poss
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 edge	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	his limit				always property	tree rules

Option 4

They were his frontier, the wall of his life

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	4 frontier	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frontier	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 frontier	nmod:poss
4	frontier	frontier	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wall	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wall	det
7	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frontier	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 life	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 life	nmod:poss
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wall	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	his frontier				the wall of his life nmod	tree rules

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