Test 14 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All…

Looking back: in chapter VII, the Rat felt a call in music he could not resist. What calls the Sea Rat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: look back, feel, not resist, call · To what, where: call, music, Sea Rat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Looking back: in chapter VII, the Rat felt a call in music he could not resist.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 felt	advcl
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	VII	vii	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	5 chapter	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Looking	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Rat	det
9	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 felt	nsubj
10	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 call	det
12	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 felt	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 music	case
14	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 call	nmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 resist	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 resist	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 resist	advmod
18	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 music	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 felt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look back	gerund	the Rat not said here			in chapter	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in chapter=Theme
2	feel	past	the Rat	a call	music		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent call=Theme in music=Location
3	not resist	could	Rat	music not said here			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: What calls the Sea Rat?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 calls	nsubj
2	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Rat	det
4	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Rat	compound
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 calls	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 calls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present			the Sea Rat				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rat=Recipient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

«the sweet call», back to the river and home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 call	det
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 call	amod
4	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 river	punct
7	back	back	ADV	_	10 river	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 home	cc
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 river	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

«the old call», back to the sea and the South

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 call	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 call	amod
4	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sea	punct
7	back	back	ADV	_	10 sea	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 South	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 South	det
13	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sea	conj

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

Option 3

The South

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

«the new call», to the farm and rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 call	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 call	amod
4	call	call	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 call	punct
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 farm	punct
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 farm	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 farm	det
9	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rest	cc
11	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 call	conj

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

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