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

Which is TRUE about the Sea Rat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	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	_	7 Rat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rat	det
6	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Rat	compound
7	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 TRUE	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 TRUE	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about the Sea Rat; 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 · ✓ the right answer

He likes the jolly times on shore as much as sailing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 likes	nsubj
2	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 times	det
4	jolly	jolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 times	amod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 likes	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 shore	case
7	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 times	nmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shore	amod
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 sailing	case
11	sailing	sailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 much	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	He				time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

He likes the jolly times on shore as much as sailing, and he never stays on the ship when he could be ashore

The tree, 23 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 likes	nsubj
2	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 times	det
4	jolly	jolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 times	amod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 likes	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 shore	case
7	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 times	nmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shore	amod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 sailing	mark
11	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 much	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stays	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stays	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stays	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 stays	advmod
16	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 likes	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 ship	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ship	det
19	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stays	obl
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 ashore	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ashore	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 ashore	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 ashore	cop
24	ashore	ashore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stays	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	He		time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	sail	gerund	He not said here				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	not stay	present	he	the ship			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ship=Location
4	is	could	he			ashore property	tree rules

Option 3

He loves the sea more than any shore life of all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loves	nsubj
2	loves	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loves	obj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 loves	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 life	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 life	det
8	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 life	compound
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 more	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 life	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	He	the sea					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sea=Stimulus

Option 4

He likes the jolly times on shore even more than sailing, and he has never once been to sea for longer than a month

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 likes	nsubj
2	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 times	det
4	jolly	jolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 times	amod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 likes	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 shore	case
7	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 times	nmod
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 likes	advmod
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 sailing	mark
11	sailing	sail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 more	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 has	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 has	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 has	nsubj
15	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 likes	conj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 sea	advmod
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	20 sea	advmod
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 sea	cop
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 sea	case
20	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 has	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 longer	case
22	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 sea	conj
23	than	than	ADP	_	25 month	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 month	det
25	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 longer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	He	time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	sail	gerund	He not said here			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	he			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not is	participle			to sea; once property	tree rules
5	be			month		tree rules

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