Test 6 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All…

Thabo from Durban: «lekker, the Sea Rat sails right across oceans for months.» (lekker = nice) Put it right.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sea Rat, lekker · What happens: sail, put · To what, where: oceans, Rat

This is test 6 · ★ 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: Thabo from Durban: «lekker, the Sea Rat sails right across oceans for months.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thabo	Thabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lekker	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 Durban	case
3	Durban	Durban	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Thabo	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 lekker	punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 lekker	punct
6	lekker	lekker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sails	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Rat	det
9	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Rat	compound
10	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sails	nsubj
11	sails	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lekker	acl:relcl
12	right	right	ADV	_	14 oceans	advmod
13	across	across	ADP	_	14 oceans	case
14	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sails	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 months	case
16	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sails	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lekker	punct
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 lekker	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail in a quote	present	the Sea Rat	oceans			month		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Theme

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: (lekker = nice) Put it right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 Put	punct
2	lekker	lekker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Put	nsubj
3	=	=	SYM	_	4 nice	punct
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lekker	amod
5	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 nice	punct
6	Put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	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	infinitive	lekker	Rat				right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

The options

Option 1

He's a deep-sea sailor, out of sight of land

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	7 sailor	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sailor	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sailor	det
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sea	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 deep	punct
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sailor	compound
7	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sight	punct
9	out	out	ADP	_	11 sight	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 sight	case
11	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sailor	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 land	case
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sight	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	He	a sea sailor					tree rules
2	sight			land					nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

He sails along the coast, close to shore

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 sails	nsubj
2	sails	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	along	along	ADP	_	5 coast	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coast	det
5	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sails	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 close	punct
7	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sails	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 shore	case
9	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	present	He			the coast			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along coast=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He's in the coasting trade, rarely out of sight of land

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	6 trade	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 trade	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 trade	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trade	det
5	coasting	coasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trade	compound
6	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sight	punct
8	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	11 sight	advmod
9	out	out	ADP	_	11 sight	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 sight	case
11	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trade	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 land	case
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sight	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He			the coasting trade and sight of land			tree rules
2	sight			land					nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He sails oceans

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 sails	nsubj
2	sails	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sails	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sail	present	He	oceans					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Theme

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