Test 9 · ★ · The Wind in the Willows, chapter IX, part 3: Wayfarers All…

What would the Water Rat probably have said to this stranger at the start of the book?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Water Rat · What happens: say, start · To what, where: stranger, book · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 said	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 said	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Rat	det
4	Water	Water	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Rat	compound
5	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	probably	probably	ADV	_	8 said	advmod
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	aux
8	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 stranger	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 stranger	det
11	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 start	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 start	det
14	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stranger	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 book	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 book	det
17	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 start	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would · perfect	the Water Rat		this stranger at the start of the book			probably property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to stranger=Recipient
2	start			the book					nom start «event transitive»: of=patient

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

That he has no wish to travel beyond the river at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 has	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 wish	det
5	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 travel	mark
7	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wish	acl
8	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 travel	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 travel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	That	no wish					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient
2	travel	to-infinitive	That not said here	no wish not said here		all		beyond the river	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beyond river=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

That the Wide World doesn't matter and he never wants to go, and that he'd scold any stranger who talks of far lands

The tree, 25 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 World	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 World	det
3	Wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 World	amod
4	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 matter	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 matter	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 matter	advmod
7	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wants	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wants	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 wants	advmod
11	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 matter	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wants	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 scold	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 scold	cc
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 scold	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 scold	nsubj
18	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 scold	aux
19	scold	scold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 matter	advcl
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 stranger	det
21	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 scold	obj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 talks	nsubj
23	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 stranger	acl:relcl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 lands	case
25	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 lands	amod
26	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 talks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	the Wide World			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	not want	present	World			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	World not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	scold	would	World	any stranger		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme
5	talk	present	any stranger		of far lands	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

That the Wide World doesn't matter and he never wants to go, though he would secretly envy the stranger's freedom a little

The tree, 24 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 matter	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 World	det
3	Wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 World	amod
4	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 matter	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 matter	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 matter	advmod
7	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wants	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wants	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 wants	advmod
11	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 matter	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wants	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 envy	punct
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 envy	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 envy	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 envy	aux
18	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	19 envy	advmod
19	envy	envy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 matter	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stranger	det
21	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 freedom	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 stranger	case
23	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 envy	obj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 little	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 envy	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	That			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	not want	present	World			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	World not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	envy	would	World	the stranger's freedom	a little obl:unmarked; secretly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer freedom=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

That the Wide World doesn't matter and he never wants to go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 matter	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 World	det
3	Wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 World	amod
4	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 matter	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 matter	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 matter	advmod
7	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wants	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wants	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 wants	advmod
11	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 matter	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wants	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	That	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	not want	present	World	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	World not said here	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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