Test 11 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All…

Looking back: in chapter VIII, which traveller met a fox at night who mocked his washing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Looking, night, fox · What happens: look back, meet, mock, wash · To what, where: fox, washing

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 58 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All (the Sea Rat from Constantinople)» 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	10 met	csubj
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Looking	advmod
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 chapter	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 chapter	case
5	chapter	chapter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl
6	VIII	VIII	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 traveller	punct
8	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	9 traveller	det
9	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chapter	conj
10	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fox	det
12	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 met	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 night	case
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 met	obl
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 mocked	nsubj
16	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 night	acl:relcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 washing	nmod:poss
18	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 mocked	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 met	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund				in chapter and which traveller	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	meet	past	Looking	a fox	night		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Co-Agent
3	mock	past	night	fox's washing			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent washing=Theme
4	wash		fox				nom washing «act transitive»: poss=agent

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

Toad, disguised as a farmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 disguised	punct
3	disguised	disguise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Toad	acl
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 farmer	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 disguised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	disguise	participle		Toad not said here				as a farmer	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Rat, dressed as a sailor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Rat	acl
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 sailor	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sailor	det
6	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	participle		Rat not said here				as a sailor	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Toad, dressed as a washerwoman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Toad	acl
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 washerwoman	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 washerwoman	det
6	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	participle		Toad not said here				as a washerwoman	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Toad, dressed as a washerwoman and carrying a basket of wet linen down the lane

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dressed	punct
3	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Toad	acl
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 washerwoman	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 washerwoman	det
6	washerwoman	washerwoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dressed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 carrying	cc
8	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 dressed	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 basket	det
10	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carrying	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 linen	case
12	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 linen	amod
13	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 basket	nmod
14	down	down	ADP	_	16 lane	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lane	det
16	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carrying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress	participle		Toad not said here				as a washerwoman	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	carry	gerund		a basket of wet linen				down the lane	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme

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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